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Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
James Cheshire
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Description for Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
Paperback.
'Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty' Chris Packham Once tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the natural world as never before. For the first time, this book lets you follow the journeys of seals, sharks, elephants, bumble bees, owls and wolves all over the world. Open it, and go where the animals go. 'This is a special kind of detective story' New Scientist 'This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats' Dr Jane Goodall 'Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover' E. O. Wilson
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141982229
SKU
V9780141982229
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-32
About James Cheshire
James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti's complementary skills enable them to produce graphics and book pages that few others can match. As a lecturer at University College London, James applies his cartographic and programming skills to the staggering amount of data that scientists are now collecting. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cuthbert Peek Award in recognition of his work 'advancing geographical knowledge through the use of mappable Big Data'. Oliver has more than a decade of experience visualizing and writing about wildlife research-from 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior Design Editor.
Reviews for Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] The book is infinitely compelling, one you'll return to time and again, and full of 'wow, you have to see this' moments. It reinforces the notion that information really can be beautiful...
Londonist
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Brilliantly compelling...The Information Capital is a tour de force in the modern use of graphics to make a point
London Evening Standard
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Visually stunning maps and graphics
Guardian
Where the Animals Go elegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration
Science
Ravishing
Washington Post
An unstoppable book that will please anyone with an interest in the natural world
Geographical
Its double intent is brilliant - to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation...Downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text ... an exceptional book
NPR
A stunning translation of movement onto paper
Scientific American
Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover
E. O. Wilson
From the first page, this book is an enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover. [...] I can't review this book without mentioning the maps, which are exquisite. They convey an astounding quantity and quality of information
Kate Scragg
British Trust for Ornithology
Incredible
The Big Issue
Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty
Chris Packham Enchanting and exhilarating ... Where the Animals Go is an eye-opening exercise in perspective that puts place and space at the heart of the 21st-century conservation debate
Literary Review
This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats
Dr Jane Goodall
Each story is a striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world
Financial Times
This is a special kind of detective story. After millennia of using footprints, faeces, feathers, broken foliage and nests to track animals, the process is now so teched up you need to read this book to find out the how, what and why
New Scientist
Londonist
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Brilliantly compelling...The Information Capital is a tour de force in the modern use of graphics to make a point
London Evening Standard
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Visually stunning maps and graphics
Guardian
Where the Animals Go elegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration
Science
Ravishing
Washington Post
An unstoppable book that will please anyone with an interest in the natural world
Geographical
Its double intent is brilliant - to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation...Downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text ... an exceptional book
NPR
A stunning translation of movement onto paper
Scientific American
Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover
E. O. Wilson
From the first page, this book is an enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover. [...] I can't review this book without mentioning the maps, which are exquisite. They convey an astounding quantity and quality of information
Kate Scragg
British Trust for Ornithology
Incredible
The Big Issue
Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty
Chris Packham Enchanting and exhilarating ... Where the Animals Go is an eye-opening exercise in perspective that puts place and space at the heart of the 21st-century conservation debate
Literary Review
This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats
Dr Jane Goodall
Each story is a striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world
Financial Times
This is a special kind of detective story. After millennia of using footprints, faeces, feathers, broken foliage and nests to track animals, the process is now so teched up you need to read this book to find out the how, what and why
New Scientist