Flights of Fancy : : Defying Gravity by Design & Evolution
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"An Apollo book".
Includes index.
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, this is a unique collaboration between one of the world's leading scientists and a talented artist.
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PUBLISHED
London : Head of Zeus, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781838937850
1838937854
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lenzova, Jana,
SUBJECTS
Flight.
Animal flight.