Name: Wonder Book of Would You Believe von Harry Golding
SKU: 9781844036554
Price: 6.69 EUR
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Wonder Book of Would You Believe Zusammenfassung

Wonder Book of Would You Believe Harry Golding

Who has not enjoyed the treasured moment of unearthing a beloved childhood book many years later and delighting in the tales that kept us rapt? The photographs and drawings, the avuncular tone, the care and attention to every detail, and the wonder of a by-gone age. There are many things to marvel at in The Wonder Book of Would You Believe It?, the fascination of insects' eyes, the largest plants and fastest creatures, to the tales of dinosaurs and denizens of the deep, and not least the wonderful collection of fascinating facts covered. Coupled with this, each article is written in a gloriously rich and warm 1930's style of crafted sentences and beguiling turns of phrase.Here you will find a trove of oddities - strange but true - with titles such as Whence Came Man's Animals Friends?, A River of Logs, and The Wonderful Life Story of a Fig. The Wonder Book of How It's Done is a rare gem, in part a joyous example of the RP world of the gramophone and wireless, in part a fabulous social history and glimpse of a bygone age.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Strange Houses An African Miracle Creatures thar Produce Their Own Cold Light Insect Wireless The Spectre of the Brocken Glass Strong Enough to Carry an Elephant What Makes Your Hair Stand on End Eyes of Many Kinds It Does Rain Frogs and Fishes Distances, Speeds and Numbers Unbelievable A River of Logs Bluff Ultra-violet Magic Some Very Curious Plants A Mix-Up How Does the Salmon Know? Feeling by Wireless Four Thousand Miles! How Strong is It? The Fastest Thing in Creation Strange Ears and What They Hear Giants Some Very Curious Fish Colour versus Scent A Living Floating Bridge Do Plants Feel? Butterflies that Vary Colouring to Suit the Season Some Queer Birds Heat that Defies Imagination The Lake Above the Clouds A White City Underground Old Inhabitants of our Home Plants that Eat Animals Change, Continuous Change A City of Floating Houses Many Brains and No Brains Queer Birds The Sense of Taste Crusaders' Castles What is Pumice-stone? New Limbs for Old The Extraordinary Strength of Growing Plants Giving Plants Electric Shocks Heat Unthinkable and Cold Unimaginable How They Move Some Fish with Most Curious Habits A Butterfly Larva that Hibernates in an Ants' Nest Robbers of the Plant Kingdom How Strange This Seems Many, Many Millions Tabu Goblins Set a Thief - Lives Long and Short Splendours of the Past When the Earth was Born The Bombardier Beetle Why He is Called the Butcher Bird Nightmare Denizens of an Unexplored World What Are We Made Of? Not Like Us And Baby Goes Too Where a Man Would Weigh 20,000 Tons The Plant's Chemical Laboratory Curious Ways of Breathing Birds that Cannot Fly Man-made Plants Whence Came Man's Animals Friends? Teeth in Strange Places Speeds Stupendous So Life Goes On How Plants Disperse Their Seeds Trees Turned to Stone Stranger than Fiction Big Money Plants that Sleep Ice Over England How Some Plants Resist Drought The Wonderful Life Story of a Fig Scent and Smell Eggs by the Million Wonderful Flights by Butterflies and Moths

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003794473

ISBN 13

9781844036554

ISBN 10

1844036553

Titel

Wonder Book of Would You Believe Harry Golding

Autor

Harry Golding

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Octopus Publishing Group

Datum

20081103

Anzahl der Seiten

236

Preise

N/A

Begleitschreiben

Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.

Hinweis

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