The Wildlife Companion (A Think Book) - Hardcover

Tait, Malcolm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861057709 ISBN 13: 9781861057709

Publisher: Anova Books, 2004

Synopsis

The Wildlife Companion is for anyone who has ever heard a bird sing, watched a moth flutter against a light, or ambled through a bluebell wood and wondered, just for a moment, how such a diverse and beautiful natural world could possibly have come about. Just leaf through these pages and discover the real truth about lemmings, how ladybugs retract their wings, the bizarre mating habits of dragonflies, how Aristotle cured elephants of insomnia, and how to say “blackbird” in Klingon. The Wildlife Companion will introduce you to a Cawdy Mawdy, a Mouldiwarp, a Hornywink, a Fiddle Dock, and more than 500 more animal amazements, ornithological oddities, and botanical beauties.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Ever wonder what happens to the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IV’s coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? The delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable volumes in the Companion Series are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.

About the Author:

Malcolm Tait is the editor of the Companion series, and of Wildlife Walks, also published by Think Books. He is editor of the magazines Conserver and Butterfly and contributes regular wildlife columns to national magazines. He is based in Maidenhead, Berks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anova Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1861057709
• ISBN 13: 9781861057709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158