East African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon

East African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon

Acclaimed and coveted by both naturalists and lovers of wildlife illustration, Jonathan Kingdon's seven-volume East African Mammals has become a classic of modern natural history. This paperback edition makes Kingdon's remarkable artistic and scientific achievement his hundreds of drawings and perceptive study of all the mammals in East Africa's species-rich fauna available to the wide audience it deserves.
Volume IB of East African Mammals is a study of some of East Africa'ssmallest and least conspicuous mammals, hares and rodents.
In each volume Kingdon combines his text with hundreds of finished drawings and quick sketches, the latter a form of field note that provides an incomparable description of the animal's movements and personality. Kingdom explains his drawings as a wordless questioning of form. . . . The probing pencil is like the dissecting scalpel, seeking to expose relevant structures that may not be immediately obvious and are certainly hidden from the shadowy world of the camera lens. As an artist, Kingdon's achievement has been compared with Audubon's; as a scientist, his work has made these volumes indispensable to any serious student of East African mammals.

Jonathan Kingdon is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Biological Anthropology and Department of Zoology of Oxford University. He is the author of and artist for numerous books, including Self-Made Man and Island Africa (Princeton). The Millennium issue of American Scientist named Kingdon's Atlas of Evolution in Africa one of the 100 books that shaped a century of science.

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Titel	East African Mammals
Autor	Jonathan Kingdon
Serie	East African Mammals
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1984-07-01
Seitenanzahl	428
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