- Published: 03/10/2013
- ISBN: 9781847082442
- 129x20mm
- 448 pages
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
Caspar Henderson
From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, 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.
A witty, vivid blend of pioneering natural history and spiritual primer, infectiously celebratory about life’s sheer ingenuity and variety, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a mind-expanding, wonder-inducing read.
£10.99
Wondrous, capacious and strange
Simon Critchley
Utterly extraordinary book: glorious and genre-bending; a spell-book of species that entranced me from its first page... A celebration of nature's astonishing variety - and a warning as to what we are so rapidly losing
Robert Macfarlane
Wonderful, beautiful and engrossing... a delight
Robin Ince
From the Same Author
A New Map of Wonders
Caspar Henderson
A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring.
With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great explorer, the award-winning Caspar Henderson celebrates and explains the wonder of light and the origins of the universe, the myriad marvels of the human body and the natural world — and reveals the wonders to come: the technologies that will transform human experience and change what we will find wonderful.
Drawing on philosophy and natural history, art and religion, neuroscience and nanotechnology, A New Map of Wonders is a celebration of life — a rich and inspiring guide, encouraging us to see the world anew.
£20.00
Caspar Henderson on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir
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Granta 162
The Golden Record
Caspar Henderson
‘The two copies of the Golden Record were shot into space nearly fifty years ago.’
Caspar Henderson on music sent into space by NASA.
Essays & Memoir | Granta 162
Running
Caspar Henderson
‘Often, a road is the least interesting path to follow.’
Essays & Memoir | Granta 162
Barely Imagined Beings
Caspar Henderson
‘Monsters of one kind or another are woven into virtually all the cultures of which we have record.’
