by Caspar Henderson, Golbanou Moghaddas (Illustrator)
An entrancing guide to the world’s most far-fetched creatures – a unique blend of cutting-edge science and philosophical meditation on what we humans can learn from the extraordinary animals around us
What if mankind disappeared right now, forever … what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet’s climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and our myriad plastics? And what would our final legacy be?