Amazing Rare Things
- Authors: David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton, and Rea Alexandratos
- Pages: 224
- Size: 7.62 Ć 9.87 in
- Illustrations: 160 color illustrations
Amazing Rare ThingsĀ is enthralling, with elegant natural history drawings from the British Royal Collection married to beautiful prose.
The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collectionās exquisite natural history artworks inĀ Amazing Rare ThingsĀ is supplemented by an introduction and commentary from Sir David Attenborough. This exploration of the natural world from the late fifteenth century to the early eighteenth century represents a period when European knowledge of the world was transformed by voyages of discovery to the farthest reaches of Africa, Asia, America, and beyond. Included are works by Leonardo da Vinci and other foremost artists and collectors of their time who embraced the natural riches of their ever-expanding world and whose legacies help us better understand today our continuing relationship with the natural world.
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Amazing Rare Things
- Authors: David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton, and Rea Alexandratos
- Pages: 224
- Size: 7.62 Ć 9.87 in
- Illustrations: 160 color illustrations
Amazing Rare ThingsĀ is enthralling, with elegant natural history drawings from the British Royal Collection married to beautiful prose.
The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collectionās exquisite natural history artworks inĀ Amazing Rare ThingsĀ is supplemented by an introduction and commentary from Sir David Attenborough. This exploration of the natural world from the late fifteenth century to the early eighteenth century represents a period when European knowledge of the world was transformed by voyages of discovery to the farthest reaches of Africa, Asia, America, and beyond. Included are works by Leonardo da Vinci and other foremost artists and collectors of their time who embraced the natural riches of their ever-expanding world and whose legacies help us better understand today our continuing relationship with the natural world.
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- Authors: David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton, and Rea Alexandratos
- Pages: 224
- Size: 7.62 Ć 9.87 in
- Illustrations: 160 color illustrations
Amazing Rare ThingsĀ is enthralling, with elegant natural history drawings from the British Royal Collection married to beautiful prose.
The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collectionās exquisite natural history artworks inĀ Amazing Rare ThingsĀ is supplemented by an introduction and commentary from Sir David Attenborough. This exploration of the natural world from the late fifteenth century to the early eighteenth century represents a period when European knowledge of the world was transformed by voyages of discovery to the farthest reaches of Africa, Asia, America, and beyond. Included are works by Leonardo da Vinci and other foremost artists and collectors of their time who embraced the natural riches of their ever-expanding world and whose legacies help us better understand today our continuing relationship with the natural world.
