Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour

The number of stars I give the book, depends on how I view its purpose. As a coffeetable book, it is lovely. Beautiful photos abound and a wide diversity of life is covered - including plants, insects, sea life, amphibians, reptiles, birds and various chapters on mammels. Many are of unusual animals most people will not be familiar with. With each is a short (generally 2-3 page) essay providing more information about the interesting animal (or plant). Some are fascinating. Everyone who has looked at it has enjoyed the photos, no matter their age. The text, however, is definetely aimed at adults.I like to read books cover-to-cover, and for this purpose I would probably give it 3 stars (admittedly many people probably wouldn't buy the book with this objective). For one thing, because it's topic is 'life', a rather broad topic by any stretch (or as it is more covered in this book 'life that has unusual approaches to procreation or fighting/survival') it can't cover anything in depth and each essay is really more a stand-alone piece loosely connected together rather than a single narrative. Also, and this might not sound like a big deal, but if you plan to read it for any length of time believe me it is, the book is very large and very heavy with small font. That makes for fantastic photos as I mentioned above, but there was just no comfortable way to read it for any length of time. The best I was able to come up with was having it on a table and sitting at a desk like a student. Not my favorite way to read for enjoyment!So, I recommend the book with the caveat that I recommend it to be enjoyed over the long term. Look at the pictures. Read an interesting essay or two and come back to it periodically rather than read through it like a novel.

World life's collection . Just to ease your eyes or stress.All devided and explained about, good for Mid to Early Thirties people

Beautiful book

enjoyed