The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is subtitled ‘A 21st Century Bestiary’ and that’s what it is not a natural history book, not an encyclopedia of animals, a bestiary – an odd fusion of science and navel-gazing. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the land, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thought we knew and some we could never have contemplated, inviting us to better imagine the precarious world we inhabit.Ī witty, vivid blend of cutting edge natural history and meditative reflection, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is infectiously celebratory about the sheer ingenuity and variety of life. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary by Caspar Hendersonįorm: Non-Fiction, Science, Natural History, Zoology, Bestiaryįrom the Axolotl to the Zebrafish, our planet contains a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary.
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