From the minds behind the Atlas Obscura book series and community-driven online travel magazine comes a fascinating addition to their catalog: Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders.
Written by Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer, this volume is filled with more than 500 intriguing animals, plants, and natural phenomena, the entries rich in detail and illustrated with vivid, full-color photographs. Equal parts travel guide and nature compendium, Atlas Obscura: Wild Life invites readers on an exhilarating adventure across all seven continents.
Learn about the chimpanzee toolmakers of the Goualougo Triangle in the Republic of the Congo, and Sphagnum moss, "one of the world's most biologically simple plants." Discover the wildlife that has taken over the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the colorful "fluorescent mysteries of the animal kingdom."
Interspersed among the entries are in-depth and inspiring interviews with people at the forefront of natural exploration and advocacy, such as Lenin Raj, one of the first environmental DJs at a radio station "dedicated to informing India's fishing community about marine life, climate change, and proactive solutions," and Ruaruhina Teariki Sholan, an Indigenous Polynesian environmentalist who advocates for coconut crabs, also known as kaveu. She and her family "rescue kaveu and release them back into the wild."
This stunning almanac celebrates the world's interconnectedness. As humans continue to learn new skills by observing nature and use that knowledge to reshape the planet, this book is a timely reminder that "we made the world together with many others--wild creatures big and small, familiar and unfamiliar, plant and animal and fungus and microbe." --Grace Rajendran, freelance reviewer