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Book of Flight: 10 Record-Breaking Animals with Wings

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Meet ten fascinating flyers through a series of superlatives – and guess who's who while learning about airborne animals. From the fastest (white-throated needletail) to the most acrobatic (flying fox bat), and from the best glider (colugo) to the best backward flyer (hummingbird), each master of flight is cleverly depicted in a blueprint-inspired diagram, accompanied by playful, informative text.

Artist / Author Gabrielle Balkan
Publisher Phaidon Press
ISBN 978-0714878638
Reference P3996
Date 2019
Type Publication

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