Leonora Hornblow (1920–2005)
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The Love-Seekers by Leonora Hornblow 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Schinasi, Leonora (birth)
- Geboortedatum
- 1920-06-03
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2005-11-05
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Fearrington Village, North Carolina, USA
- Beroepen
- novelist
children's book author
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Describes 17 fish that have peculiar characteristics and habits, including fish that spit, fly, climb trees, blow up like balloons, and sleep out of water.
Describes 22 birds with unusual habits or characteristics, including the ostrich, kiwi, honey guide and hornbill.
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- 2,632
- Populariteit
- #9,757
- Waardering
- 4.4
- Besprekingen
- 21
- ISBNs
- 32
Michael K. Frith's art is lovely and fun, and clearly strongly inspired by Charles Knight and other early paleo-artists. The writing however is awful. Besides the completely inaccurate biology, these folks had clearly no idea how plate-tectonics worked, to the point that the descriptions of explosions under the earth causing mountains to rise had to be inspired by Disney's Fantasia 1940. The story telling also wanders in tone and topic pretty wildly, though it ends with a PSA to save the whales, so that's something.… (meer)