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I spent my summers at my grandparents cabin in estes park, literally next door to rocky mountain national park. Comparing the size of an animal to a paperclip or the thickness of a bone to a strand of spaghetti creates an immediate visual that makes budding scientists want to learn more. More a travel book than a wildlife book, the text is nonetheless greatly formed by the encounters with nature that thomas experiences on his trip from london to the quantocks nearly a. It is very informative and well laid out, it is also full of quality diagrams of the most common species of british wildlife.
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