Rainforest

This is WAY more than a coffee table book. The photos are fascinating and technically exceptional and the text informative. You are in for a treat!

The spirit of the animals, plants embodied in the unbelievably fantastic pictures in this book put me and everyone i show the book in awe of the wonder of our Rainforests. As I teach children at schools about how global warming is really an incredible opportunity, this book sets their minds into fantastic positive motion and you can see the happiness in there eyes to know what it is we are fighting to save for all future generations. This is a must have photo-documentary of the absolute finest quality. As I teach adults and develop business opportunities, I pass this book among them, and they stare, fixated, quiet, nearly unable to let the book pass to their co-worker sitting next to them. This is a book that is helping to convince all people that we can and will turn global warming into the greatest opportunity of all time. Its a MUST have for you and your children and for everyone you know.

Well I was ready to dish out some more money for another DK book.. Which I currently own Animal and Earth. I was planning on going with Plant next, but then I saw this one sitting there... I flipped thru it and knew right away this was the next DK book for me. Breath taking pictures of terrain, plants and animals from the rainforest. Not so much wording as DK's other books.. but the pictures are enough. Don't ever be afraid to buy a DK visual book.

My [....] son and I stumbled across this book last night and we were absolutely captivated. He is currently studying plants in science and many of the photographs were of plants discussed in class. The photographs mesmerized both of us and we ended up buying the book. I stayed awake to the early morning hours slowly turning the pages as I saw plants and animals in ways I had never before seen. This morning, my son brought it to school where he shared it with the other kids prior to first bell. There were 15 nine and ten year olds jockeying for the best view with "cool" and "awesome" said only the way a child can. They completely missed the sound of the bell and their teacher came out to see what the delay was. She too fell in love and the book stayed at school to be shared with all the [....] classes over the next few days. This book deserves more than 5 stars.

This book is one of the most spectacular collections of nature photography I have ever seen. The author spent 16 years traveling across the tropics, capturing with his camera the very essence of the rainforest ecosystem. Ranging from majestic panoramas of the forest to intimate portraits of birds and mammals (how did he get those wide angle portraits of monkeys?!) to fantastic close ups of invertebrates and mushrooms, this book explores tropical humid forest at all its levels. The message of this magnificent collection is clear - rainforests are the pinnacle of life on Earth, a jewel-studded crown of Nature; they are libraries of genetic and biotic diversity that must be saved at all cost. I recommend this book to all nature lovers and photography aficionados. I recommend it even more to those who don't care about the rainforest and its preservation - if these images cannot convince you about the value and uniqueness of this habitat, nothing will.