Customer Reviews:
 Insects - Amazing Images of Fascinating Creatures January 13, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Technicality: This review is titled after the book, as the other 4 reviews liked by Amazon are clearly for a different book - likely a field guide, which this book isn't.
It's a big book: Bigger than A4, an inch thick and weighs a kilo; it's not a field guide! It is a nice coffee-table production primarily showing exactly what it claims, great photos of wierd and wonderful bugs, including plenty of butterflies and moths.
There is some text, enough to explain what each image is, but whilst full of strange and wonderful facts and pictures, don't consider this to be any form of searchable reference. It is a great book to have on the shelf for arousing an interest and generating wonder at what's out there. I think that's the expectation the title sets, and it delivers.
My only complaint is that the proof-reading was awful. The book is so full of careless mistakes that they distract the reader. For example, inside the rear dust cover there is one paragraph describing the author. It contains both bad grammar and claims Mr Chinery wrote a field guide to "the Guide of Britain". Exam question: Who is the Guide of Britain - discuss...
Mr Chinery - give me a call and I'll happily proof-read your next book.
Otherwise this is a very attractive book if you like interesting photos of odd creatures.
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