Secret Stories of Nature: A Field Guide to Uncover Our Planet's Past

Nature's Hidden Stories is a field guide that explores the histories and mysteries hidden in the wild, revealing the secrets of animals, plants, and natural phenomena in different environments. It offers a wealth of knowledge and insights into how nature has evolved and how we can protect it for future generations. The book is filled with meticulously detailed vintage-style artwork that brings the information to life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 64 pages
Publication date: 05 October 2023
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

In every corner of the globe, in every nook of the sea, in ancient lands beneath your feet, up towering mountains you cannot see, in stones, in plants, in birds, and beasts, lie nature's secret stories. This captivating field guide delves into the histories and mysteries hidden in the wild, just waiting to be unearthed. Readers are invited on a journey around our wondrous world, traversing lush forests, soaring mountains high, to the depths of our oceans and the earth beneath us. Each chapter explores a different environment, and within, the pages unfold the secret stories of the animals, plants, and natural phenomena that inhabit these habitats. Some secrets reveal the interconnectedness of species, or extraordinary adaptations and features, while others shed light on nature's evolution and hold the keys to understanding our planet's past.

As readers delve into these captivating tales, they will acquire a wealth of knowledge and discover how observing nature today can help us unravel mysteries from long ago, from ancient weather to the dinosaurs. They will learn how resin and rock can preserve long-lost plants and creatures, how the rings inside coral skeletons can reveal weather patterns from distant eras, how layers of the seabed can indicate a previous mass extinction occurred, how ice can trap gases and provide insights into our ancient atmosphere, and much more. The text also touches upon how these secrets are often uncovered through scientific research, observation, fossil records, as well as utilizing modern inventions and techniques like carbon dating.

Spreading at the back of the book, readers are encouraged to embark on a quest for secrets in nature right in their backyard and explore how we can all contribute to protecting the animals, plants, and natural features of today so that we may continue to enjoy and learn from them.

Weight: 410g
Dimension: 192 x 260 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780711280342