Survival
Author(s): Barbara Taylor
Did you know that scorpions give their young piggy-backs in order to avoid contact with the hot sand? This volume is full of quirky facts and figures, close-up views and feature boxes on life in Earth's toughest habitats.
Product Information
Barbara Taylor is a well-known children's author on all natural history subjects and has written several books for DK. Consultant DR Roger Few has written many books on natural history and is now researching a conservation projects.
Staying alive; kingdoms of ice; life at the top; the baking desert; escaping extremes; shoreline struggle; salty survival; island havens; deep-sea dwellers; in the dark; the urban jungle; surviving people.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
- : 0.172
- : 01 August 2002
- : 201mm X 130mm X 7mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Barbara Taylor
- : Paperback
- : 591.564
- : 8+
- : 96
- : 200 photographs, glossary, index