Table of Contents

• 4: Introduction
• 6: Cave of Giants (Fingal's Cave, Scotland)
• 8: The Show-offs (Birds of Paradise, New Guinea)
• 10: Earth Meets Sky (Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia)
• 12: The Islands of Sci-fi (Socotra Archipelago, Yemen)
• 14: Penguin Central (Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands)
• 16: Curtains of Light (Aurora Borealis, The North)
• 18: Volcanic Wilderness (Yellowstone National Park, USA)
• 20: Gleaming Shards (Cave of Crystals, Mexico)
• 22: Wet and Dry (Namib Desert, Angola, Namibia and South Africa)
• 24: Coastal Invaders (Christmas Island crabs, Christmas Island; Firefly squid, Japan)
• 26: Nature's Cradle (Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania)
• 28: Island of Rock (Uluru, Australia)
• 30: Safe Haven (Seal Island, South Africa)
• 32: Heights of Grandeur (Giant Forest, USA)
• 34: One of a Kind (Animals of Madagascar)
• 36: Devil's Throat (Iguazu Falls, Argentina and Brazil)
• 38: Scarlet Waters (Lake Natron, Tanzania)
• 40: Lungs of the Planet (Amazon Basin, South America)
• 42: Tortoise Sanctuary (Aldabra, Seychelles)
• 44: A River Makes Its Mark (Grand Canyon, USA)
• 46: Rainforest of the Ocean (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)
• 48: Everlasting Storm (Catatumbo lightning, Venezuela)
• 50: Land of the Ice Giants (Eisriesenwelt, Austria)
• 52: The Flutter of 200 Million Wings (Monarch butterfly migration, North America)
• 54: Trail of Blossom (Sakura Zensen, Japan)
• 56: Prehistoric Forest (Gondwana Rainforest, Australia)
• 58: The Eye of the Sea (Great Blue Hole, Belize)
• 60: Glowing Caves (Waitomo Caves, New Zealand)
• 62: Index

About the Author

Molly Oldfield (Author) Molly Oldfield studied Modern History at Oxford before becoming a writer and researcher on the BBC television show QI. She has worked on a string of bestselling QI books, wrote a weekly QI column for the Daily Telegraph and researched the BBC4 radio show The Museum of Curiosity.Federica Bordoni (Illustrator) Federica Bordoni is an Italian freelancer illustrator and graphic designer who lives and works in Trento, Italy. She spends time looking for ideas and concepts to be translated into images. In her works, she tries to transmit the essence of an idea, condensing it in a visual metaphor.