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A Gap in Nature
Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Peter Schouten
其他書名
Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
出版
Text Publishing Company
, 2001
主題
History / General
Nature / Animals / General
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
Science / Environmental Science
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
ISBN
1876485779
9781876485771
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4g2vAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This book is at once a lament for the lost animals of the world, and a paper ark to house them forever in human memory. Tim Flannery and wildlife artist Peter Schouten have commemorated 103 creatures which have vanished from the face of the Earth since 1492. Readers will be entranced by Peter Schouten's irresistible colour representations of the moa, the dodo and the astonishing Steller's sea cow which was eight metres long and weighed ten tonnes. Each painting is accompanied by Tim Flannery's evocative account of the vanished creature. Animals from every continent are represented in this homage to a lost Eden inhabited by American passenger pigeons, Tasmanian thylacines and African bluebucks. A Gap in Nature exhibition opened at the South Australian Museum in October.