The Book of Barely Imagined Beings : A 21st Century Bestiary. Caspar Henderson (Hardcover)

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Taking his cue from medieval bestiaries, Caspar Henderson set out to write a modern compendium of beasts, and show, in the process, that truth is a lot weirder than fiction. Forget about your griffons and basilisks, and check out things like the waterbear pictured above (in extreme close-up; they...

from Michael.Rimmer

An A-Z listing of some (generally) little known creatures which the author uses as springboards for more general musings. The author chose an eclectic and unusual choice of animals and part of the fun of the book is seeing where he would go with them. Not a book to buy if you want detailed zoolog...

from MarthaJeanne

The author started from the way the medieval bestiaries tend to be at least as much about vaguely related moral stories as about the animals being described. Big difference: the medieval authors moved on after a few pages. Henderson goes on, and on, and on, and on... The illustrations may be of s...