Giants of Land, Sea and Air, Past and Present
by David Peters
Publisher: Random House 1986
ISBN/ASIN: 0517083000
Number of pages: 38
Description:
A superbly illustrated book of the biggest animals, both living and extinct, that have inhabited the world. The animals are all drawn to scale, as are the humans included in each picture to show proportion. This makes any number of comparisons possible.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(12MB, PDF)
Similar books
The First Book of Treesby Maribelle Cormack - Watts
America is a land of trees. They grow almost everywhere in our country. Most of us see them so often that we sometimes forget how important they are. You can think of many things that we wouldn't have if there were no trees.
(11252 views)
The Animal World, A Book of Natural Historyby Theodore Wood - The University Society
This volume is a sketch of the animal life of the whole world. The author has so skilfully selected his examples to illustrate both the natural groups and the faunas, that his work forms a most commendable plan for the study of natural history.
(10777 views)
A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptilesby David Peters - Random House Value Publishing
The presentation of the creatures is broader than many dinosaur books for children, including one hundred dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles of all sizes. The illustrations here portray the dinosaurs to scale in relation to one another.
(13232 views)
Beyond the Solar Systemby Bertha Morris Parker - Row, Peterson and company
Studying the distant suns is a great strain on the imagination. If you are to get a true picture of the stars, you will have to imagine temperatures so high that the temperature in the center of a furnace fire would be cool beside them.
(7294 views)