Amazing Rare Things: The art of Natural History in the age of Discovery [Audiobook] download free by Sir David Attenborough
- Listen audiobook: Amazing Rare Things: The art of Natural History in the age of Discovery
- Author: Sir David Attenborough
- Release date: 2015/5/21
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780300215724
- Rating: 8.9 of 10
- Votes: 78
- Review by: Emanuel Rivers
- Review rating: 9.53 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/26
- Duration: 2H42M48S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, OPUS, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, AU, MPEG-4 SLS (compression ZIP, RAR, LHA, CBR, CBZ)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 14M5S (3.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes, and pioneering artists transformed the way nature was seen and understood. In Amazing Rare Things, renowned naturalist and documentary-maker David Attenborough joins with expert colleagues to explore how artists portrayed the natural world during this era of burgeoning scientific interest.The book focuses on an exquisite selection of natural history drawings and watercolors by Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mark Catesby, and from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo-works all held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Attenborough and his coauthors offer lucid commentary on topics ranging from the 30,000-year history of human drawings of the natural world, to Leonardo's fascination with natural processes, to Catesby's groundbreaking studies that introduced Europeans to the plants and animals of North America. With 160 full color illustrations, this beautiful book will appeal to readers with interests that extend from art and science to history and nature.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Natural History Books, Animals & Nature In Art (still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc), History Of Science, Art History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 28.97 USD
- Dimensions: 194x251x12.7mm
- Weight: 721g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New Haven, United States
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