Rare Animals of the World

By Francesca Salvadori

Book Overview

Rare Animals; great childs reference This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792454391
• ISBN13: 9780792454397
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Splendid book for beginners and experts alike!

This book, first published in the U.S. in 1990, covers 129 extant animals and a further 13 extinct animals. Aside from a lovely foreward and introduction, rare species from all of the geographical regions including Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas and the oceans are covered. Each animal is explained under the topics of description, geographic distribution, habitat and population. A lovely illustration follows each explanation. The language is simple enough for a ten year old to comprehend, but it still provides an informative account of each species. Among the animals covered are well known ones like the tiger, panda, leopard, wolf, black rhinoceros, blue whale, walrus, orang-utan and komodo dragon, along with lesser known creatures such as the Cuban solenodon, Indri, olm, maned wolf, yellow-footed rock wallaby, pygmy hippopotamus and numbat. It focuses on not only mammals but also reptiles, birds and amphibians.I recommend this book to any person who is interested in learning about some of the most endangered animals in the world. What you'll get is an easy to use book with easy to read text along with eye-candy artwork to drool on. The book consists of 192 pages.