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What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City. 'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...' Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat’s narrator finds himself adopted by a local scholar and thrown...

"Schulman delivers the known world in startling new sounds, colours, tastes and smells."— New York Times Sunday Book Review It is 1965 and Cora, a deaf young woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity, part of an experiment led...

When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoo’s tigers. The disease is just one species jump away from erupting into a deadly global human pandemic.

Seul le pouvoir des animaux est en mesure, aujourd'hui, de sauver l'humanité. C'est ce que pense Wendy, jeune biologiste qui vit avec un chat surdoué, une chienne d'assistance, un perroquet amoureux et un cheval thérapeute. Mais, surtout, elle consacre son temps au plus grand mystère de la nature : le tardigrade, une créature d'un millimètre, indestructible et quasi immortelle, dont une protéine pourrait triompher des pires maladies humaines.

"Se gli uomini fossero meno avidi, ci sarebbe latte sia per i nostri cuccioli che per loro e, se ci nutrissero con ciò che ci fa bene, il nostro latte sarebbe più sano e noi vivremmo più a lungo. Se non ci trattassero in modo crudele". Un racconto sulla Natura per bambini dai 9 ai 90 anni... Corre l'anno 2127, il mondo si è ingrigito e l’uomo comanda su ogni altra forma vivente. La mucca Bella rinchiusa in un allevamento, insieme alle sue compagne, è maltrattata da uno stalliere. Pino, il topolino, le incita a ribellarsi e organizza la loro fuga.