Richard Dawkins with Jana Lenzová - Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
Richard Dawkins with Jana Lenzová - Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
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The latest book from this
acclaimed thinker.
The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what
it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let
your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?
In Flights of Fancy, Richard Dawkins explains how
nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the
skies. From the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird
Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella
fairyfly and the Peregrine falcon. But it is also about flights of the mind,
about escaping the everyday – through science, ideas and imagination.
Fascinating and beautifully illustrated by Jana Lenzová, this is a unique
collaboration between one of the world's leading scientists and a talented
artist.
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