How Nature Keeps Time is a visually stunning and informative book that explores the natural world's timespans, featuring over 80 diagrams and charts. It covers topics such as organism longevity, wildfire recovery, egg hatching, plant growth, parental care, and more. The book uses a graphic number line to explain these patterns and offers a calm and clear-thinking perspective on our world's natural processes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 25 May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to timespans in the natural world, featuring more than 80 beautifully designed diagrams and charts.

Which organisms live the longest? How does the natural world recover from wildfires? How long do eggs take to hatch? What are the world's fastest- and slowest-growing plants? Which species invest the most in parental care?

The graphic number line is a potent pattern that explains much of our world, from the life cycle of immortal jellyfish to the perfect amount of time for a 'good sleep.' Beautifully illustrated with reader-friendly infographics and stunning color photography, How Nature Keeps Time visually maps the amounts of time bounded by growth, distance, age, reproduction, sleep, death, and other key behaviors.

Join science and comedy writer Helen Pilcher as she examines a broad range of species from across the world and throughout time. As our natural world draws our attention to its plight, this fascinating book offers a calm, clear-thinking series of visual explanations based on the ultimate objective measure – time.

Weight: 654g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399408233