Join the journeys of sharks, elephants, condors, snowy owls, and a wolf looking for love. Find an armchair, cancel your plans and go where the animals go.
James and Oliver's complementary skills enable them to produce graphics and book pages that few others can match. As a lecturer at University College London, James applies his cartographic and programming skills to the staggering amount of data that scientists are now collecting. Oliver has more than a decade of experience visualizing and writing about wildlife research-from 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior Design Editor.
This is a special kind of detective story. After millennia of using
footprints, faeces, feathers, broken foliage and nests to track
animals, the process is now so teched up you need to read this book
to find out the how, what and why
*New Scientist*
Each story is a striking example of how innovative technology can
be used to increase our understanding of the natural world
*Financial Times*
This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There
is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild
habitats
*Dr Jane Goodall*
Enchanting and exhilarating ... Where the Animals Go is an
eye-opening exercise in perspective that puts place and space at
the heart of the 21st-century conservation debate
*Literary Review*
Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing
the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art
of understanding truth and beauty
*Chris Packham*
Incredible
*The Big Issue*
From the first page, this book is an enthralling look at the world
that technology can help us uncover. [...] I can't review this book
without mentioning the maps, which are exquisite. They convey an
astounding quantity and quality of information
*British Trust for Ornithology*
Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover
*E. O. Wilson*
A stunning translation of movement onto paper
*Scientific American*
Its double intent is brilliant - to bring each of us closer to the
animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about
conservation...Downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text ...
an exceptional book
*NPR*
An unstoppable book that will please anyone with an interest in the
natural world
*Geographical*
Ravishing
*Washington Post*
Where the Animals Go elegantly elucidates the role new technologies
has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration
*Science*
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Visually stunning maps
and graphics
*Guardian*
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Brilliantly
compelling...The Information Capital is a tour de force in the
modern use of graphics to make a point
*London Evening Standard*
[Praise for London: The Information Capital] The book is infinitely
compelling, one you'll return to time and again, and full of 'wow,
you have to see this' moments. It reinforces the notion that
information really can be beautiful...
*Londonist*
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