I've been keeping an eye out for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and debating whether to get it. (I don't have space and really ought to curb my book and art-material buying habits!) A flick through the endpapers and chapter headings makes it sound like a good read, and it's a good, chunky book! A Bestiary for the 21st Century, the first chapter is A for Axolotl.
Has anyone read it? Is it interesting? A very brief skim made it look like it covers their regenerative properties in detail, and I think it's where I read the Aztecs used to pay each other in Axolotls...
Edit: Actually, part of that first chapter is available in the ebook preview of Amazon. (And a later chapter is on Tardigrades! This book is going on my wishlist for definite.)
Has anyone read it? Is it interesting? A very brief skim made it look like it covers their regenerative properties in detail, and I think it's where I read the Aztecs used to pay each other in Axolotls...
Edit: Actually, part of that first chapter is available in the ebook preview of Amazon. (And a later chapter is on Tardigrades! This book is going on my wishlist for definite.)