To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  General Biology

The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals From the Lost Ark to the New 300 - and Beyond

By: Karl PN Shuker(Author)
368 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations
The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals ISBN: 9781616461300 Edition: 3 Hardback Aug 2012 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £49.99
    #201350
  • The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals ISBN: 9781616461089 Edition: 3 Paperback Jan 2012 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £86.99
    #196152
Selected version: £49.99
About this book Customer reviews Related titles
Images Additional images
The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered AnimalsThe Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered AnimalsThe Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered AnimalsThe Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered AnimalsThe Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered AnimalsThe Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

About this book

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and laymen alike appear to have been peculiarly confident that the world had been thoroughly explored and most of its creatures named and documented. Few, if any, large animals still awaited discovery. The scientific unveiling of the giraffe-like okapi in 1901 was one of the earliest of this century's discoveries to shake this belief. But many consider it to be the last great find, and view the rediscovery of extinct animals to be as likely as the alchemic conversion of iron into gold.

Since 1901, however, a whole host of new and rediscovered creatures has turned up to contradict these views – including a giant 7-ft-long forest hog from Africa, a colossal Indonesian monitor lizard called the Komodo dragon, the lobe-finned coelacanth fish resurrected from 64 million years of supposed extinction, the incredible megamouth shark, deep-sea tube-dwelling worms over 8 ft tall with huge red tentacles resembling strange alien flowers, plus the extraordinary Vu Quang ox and giant barking deer both discovered in Vietnam during the 1990s. And discoveries continue to be made today, in the 21st century – ranging diversely and dramatically from giant peccaries and zombie worms to an entire new suborder of insects known as the gladiators, a veritable jungle of new monkeys, and an extraordinary chameleonesque snake. And nor can we possibly forget the sensational rediscovery in North America of the near-legendary, supposedly long-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.

The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals is the third, wholly-updated edition of the very first – and still the definitive – book to be devoted to the spectacular zoological discoveries and equally amazing rediscoveries of the 20th century, which attracted international acclaim and exemplary reviews following its original publication in 1993 (when it was entitled The Lost Ark), and its subsequent republication in 2002 as an updated, greatly-expanded second edition (entitled The New Zoo).

This latest edition also contains an in-depth survey of the 21st century's most celebrated discoveries and rediscoveries made during its first decade, plus an exhaustive, significantly-increased bibliography, as well as the only comprehensive collection of colour and b/w illustrations of these spectacular animal species ever published (including new, previously-unpublished photographs, and several exclusive, specially-commissioned full-colour paintings). Unquestionably, The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals provides good reason indeed for believing that our world continues to hold many more animal surprises in store for future revelation.

Please note: the hardback edition is less expensive than the paperback, this is not an error on our website. According to the publisher "A recently available upgrade in printing technology allows me to offer a less expensive hardcover edition. It has thinner paper, but the quality of printing is close enough to the original."

Customer Reviews

By: Karl PN Shuker(Author)
368 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides