The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
5 best books like The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary (Caspar Henderson): Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, Hunger’s Brides: A Novel of the Baroque, My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
| Author | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| ISBN | 0374227764 |
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
| Author | Philip Hoare |
| ISBN | 0061976210 |
From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales. Journeying through human and natural history, The Whale is the result...
Hunger’s Brides: A Novel of the Baroque
| Author | W. Paul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0786715413 |
On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one...
| Author | Brian Switek |
| ISBN | 0374135061 |
Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a fundamental part of our collective imagination. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the dinosaur fanatic...
| Author | Olivia Laing |
| ISBN | 1847677924 |
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite...
