BOOK OF VANISHING SPECIES (HB)

A stunning homage to the planet's most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Here are red cranes which dance and bow for the sheer joy of movement, trees that breathe out a haze for insects that only feast on one kind of flower, a deep-ocean snail quietly building its shell from iron – all part of a network of life that stretches around the planet. These species may have survived for hundreds of thousands of years by cleverly adapting to their environments, but their future remains very far from certain.