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  • The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

    A 21st Century Bestiary

    A bestiary for the 21st Century, comprising of 26 chapters, each one focusing on an animal or being from A - Z, from 'Axolotl' to 'Zebrafish'. It is a wonderful, eclectic array of 'barely imagined beings', creatures that exist but are often so strange or unknown that they could have sprung from the pages of a medieval bestiary or Pliny's Natural History. In each chapter the author digresses with ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Book of Noises

    Notes on the Auraculous

    A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson’s favorite sounds. In A Book of Noises, Henderson invites readers to use their ears a little better—to tune in to the world in ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A New Map of Wonders

    A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels

    A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring.With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great explorer, the award-winning Caspar Henderson celebrates and explains the wonder of light and the origins of the universe, the myriad marvels of the human body and the natural world -- and reveals the wonders to come: the technologies that will transform human ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Book of Noises, A

    Notes on Auraculous

    Narrated by Caspar Henderson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    Sound shapes our world in invisible but profound ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating journey through the heard universe.A Book of Noises gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, and contains quiet pockets of silence. From the vast ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Map of the Sky

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  • Dark Places

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