{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-north-american-wildlife-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: North American Wildlife (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: North American Wildlife is a large format book of the wild mammals and birds of forest, grassland, mountain, wetland, tundra and coast, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two: bears, deer, wild cats, foxes and wolves with their young, whales, seals and sea otters, and birds of the woods, the rivers and the snow, at many hours and in every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the woods a black bear stands on a mossy log, a porcupine rests in the fork of a tree, a raccoon feels among the pebbles of a stream, a bobcat waits among autumn leaves and a wild turkey tom spreads his tail in a wide fan, while a white tailed doe lifts her tail at the edge of a misty wood, a red fox trots past the birches and two black bear cubs wait at a lone pine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mountains a white mountain goat stands on a narrow cliff ledge, a pika carries a bundle of grass and flowers, a hoary marmot sits up on its boulder, a cougar rests on a sunlit ledge and a grizzly digs in an alpine meadow, while bighorn and white wild sheep keep to the high slopes and a bull elk bugles in the frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the tundra caribou walk in single file, muskoxen stand together in the snow, and an arctic fox, a white arctic wolf and a small brown lemming keep to the moss. Along the coast a sea otter floats with a clam and a stone on its chest, a harbour seal lifts its head from calm grey water, a walrus rests on a gravel beach, a humpback whale breaches far off and a polar bear walks the edge of the sea ice, where a mother waits at her snow den with two cubs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen deep winter: a red fox diving head first into the snow, a lynx walking on top of it on broad furry paws, a snowshoe hare, an ermine and a willow ptarmigan in white, wolves travelling in single file and howling on a snowy ridge, a black bear asleep in its den and a river otter sliding down a snowy bank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book, on how these animals feed, travel and raise their young, how they meet the cold, and the record holders among them: black bear cubs are born in the winter den, each weighing less than half a kilogram, loon chicks often ride on a parent's back in their first weeks, wolves howl to gather the pack, to raise an alarm and to find one another in a storm, and in snowy country the ermine turns white in winter, all but the black tip of its tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68174640677168,"sku":"9671456007175","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456007175.jpg?v=1792939515","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-north-american-wildlife-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}