Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution. They are older than trees, have survived five extinction events and are essential to maintaining balanced ocean ecosystems, but how much do we really know about their lives?The first book to reveal the hidden world of sharks, Emperors of the Deep draws upon the latest scientific research to examine four species in detail ¿ mako, tiger, hammerhead and great white ¿ as never before. An eye-opening tour of shark habitats ranges from the coral reefs of the Central Pacific where great whites mysteriously congregate every autumn in what researchers call a festival for sharks, to tropical mangrove forests where baby lemon sharks play in social groups and to the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, home to 400-year-old Greenland sharks, the world¿s longest-lived vertebrates. McKeever also traces the evolution of the myth of the ¿man-eater¿ and exposes the devastating effects of the fishing industry on shark
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A publication of British artist Ian McKeever's Henge paintings (2017-22) - abstract works inspired by neolithic standing stones in Wiltshire, England. Featuring an essay by Paul Moorhouse and a conversation with Jon Wood, the publication accompanies...
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