[Eng.] Thomas Marent: “Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps”
Xingding posted on 2007-02-14 21:49:20
[Eng.] Thomas Marent: “Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps,” translated by Hao Xiaojing, Hope Publishing House, October 2006
http://www.joyo.com/static/lll_061107_bk_rdyl.asp?source=w-90003370
I quite like books like photographic collections, though they’re usually expensive, so I rarely buy them. This book was an impulsive purchase, and it is very good-looking.
The rainforest is a marvelous place. In the rainforests, which cover 6% of the Earth’s land area, live more than half of the world’s species; on a warm and humid night, in a not-too-large patch of rainforest, you can hear 80 different kinds of frogs croaking, while all of Europe has only 53 species of frogs; beneath a single tree in the rainforest there may be more than 40 different species of ants and over 150 species of beetles…
The main factor that prompted me to buy this book was the CD included with it, which contains ambient sounds recorded in various rainforests. Listening to it really is wonderfully uncanny. Reading the book while listening to the CD gives one the feeling of being in the middle of the rainforest, and the paper has a special fragrance too—fortunately, this fragrance does not come from the rainforest. It is said that this book was released worldwide at the same time, and that the paper used is uniformly environmentally friendly paper, absolutely containing no timber from the rainforest.
February 14, 2007
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Gu2007-02-15 00:34:38 Anonymous 218.81.122.253 [Reply]
Some image and sound previews: http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/html/features/rainforest/intro.html
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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