Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife

by David Burnie and D.K. Publishing

Book Overview

This landmark photographic encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is revised with new species, images, and the latest scientific knowledge on all things animal! DK's Animal features stunning wildlife... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756616344
• ISBN13: 9780756616342
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.6" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

An excellent centerpiece, very nice to browse

Colorful, informative, beautiful and massive. This book offers an expansive overview of the world's wildlife, and the level of work that went into its production is astounding. Highly recommend. This is the sort of volume to leave out on display.

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This book is simpy outstanding. Few books can rival the wide scope offered by Animal on a vast range of organisms which include invertebrates, birds, reptiles, mammals, fish, and amphibians. The book is adorned with magnificent color photos of each organism and a compact description that provides adequate amounts of info on the organism. Although some common species are excluded, it more than makes up for this with the amount of species covered. For every common species excluded, I ran across three new species I had never heard of. This book is an extraordinary guide to the vast array of wildlife in the world. There are few books that I have found as informative and enjoyable to read as Animal. It truly is a definitive guide to the world's wildlife and I highly recommend it.

ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR!

(...)If you are an animal lover, or want to use the book as a reference guide, this book will appeal to you. (...) To date I have seen no other book quite like it on any book shelf. Every fact and aspect of animal life is included here and the photographs are absolutely out of this world! Classification, behaviour, habitat and everything you wanted to know about each species in the animal kingdom is contained here and it is quite in-depth. What a wonderful gift this would make for that special animal lover on your list, and it would also make an excellent coffee table book for yourself.(...) Highly recommended and worth a million stars in rating.