Living Jewels: The Natural Design of Beetles

by Prestel and Poul Beckmann

Book Overview

A presentation of close-up studio photographs of one of the most varied and beautiful species on the planet: the beetle. The range of shapes and colours featured should be a source of inspiration to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791329928
• ISBN13: 9783791329925
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 3.4" x 4.9"

Customer Reviews

my step daughter LOVED it!!! THANKS!!!

I got this as a Christmas gift for my stepdaughter, who likes beetles, and she loved it.

A work of art

This is a beautiful and unique book; the photography and printing are outstanding, and the images of the beetles are simultaneously gorgeous and bizarre.

Amazing. Nature exceeds fantasy.

This book contains a most colorful collection of creatures.I had never realized that the family of beetles encompassed such variety in colors, shapes, and forms. As an artist, I would recommend this book to anyone who delights in images celebrating the bizarre and the beautiful in nature.

A gorgeous piece of work!

Living Jewels shows just that: the tremendous variety of jewels that make up the population of beetles. Upon closer examination of the photographs, the "jewels" have a tremendous amount of detail, showing tiny hairs, fuzz and various protuberances. How can that much detail show up in a photograph?The text at the beginning of the book contains many fascinating, and at times hysterical, facts about beetles. I got a good laugh about the treatment of beetles in medieval times!