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.
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