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A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity
David Liittschwager
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Description for A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity
Hardcover. Features photographs that take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around. Num Pages: 224 pages, 985 colour plates. BIC Classification: AJC; PSAF; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 315 x 25. Weight in Grams: 2032. Portraits of Biodiversity. 224 pages, 985 colour plates. Features photographs that take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AJC; PSAF; WNC. Dimension: 311 x 315 x 25. Weight: 2032.
"A World in One Cubic Foot" puts the world accessibly in our hands and allows us to behold the magic of an ecosystem in miniature. Liittschwager's awe-inspiring photographs take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around. Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature - from coral reefs to cloud forests to tidal pools ... Read more
"A World in One Cubic Foot" puts the world accessibly in our hands and allows us to behold the magic of an ecosystem in miniature. Liittschwager's awe-inspiring photographs take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around. Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature - from coral reefs to cloud forests to tidal pools ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226481234
SKU
V9780226481234
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About David Liittschwager
David Liittschwager is a freelance photographer and a contributor to National Geographic and other magazines. His work has been exhibited at such institutions as the California Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of Skulls and coauthor of Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary, Remains of a Rainbow: ... Read more
Reviews for A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity
"As the flora and fauna of the surface are examined more closely, the interlocking mechanisms of life are emerging in ever-greater and more surprising detail. In time we will come fully to appreciate the magnificent little ecosystems that have fallen under our stewardship." -E. O. Wilson, from the Foreword"