自然科學外文書的部落格

　　This collection of Thomas Marent’s images, 16 years in the making, brings alive the sheer and awe-inspiring beauty of the rainforest.” Sting - founding patron, The Rainforest Foundation

　　Rainforests are the most complex, productive, dynamic and diverse places on Earth. In this stunning volume these largely unexplored ecosystems are revealed through the spectacular photography of Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life to capturing images of rainforest life.

　　Arranged thematically into four sections exploring the ways in which different life forms co-exist

　　Includes a 70-minute CD featuring the amazing sounds from the rainforest Features up-close views of the plants, trees, reptiles, birds, amphibians, insects and mammals of the rainforest.

　　Over 16 years in the making, Marent has travelled across 5 continents and dedicated half his life to capturing the astonishing variety and fascinating behavior of rainforest life - from flesh-eating army ants and poisonous frogs to the vast colonies of Technicolor butterflies that flutter high in the canopy.

作者簡介

　　Thomas Marent started photographing natural history subjects, particularly birds and butterflies, in the mountains of his native Switzerland, and has dedicated nearly half of his life to recording wildlife across five continents. He is the author of DK’s Frog and Butterfly.