The book of barely imagined beings / Caspar Henderson ; illustrated by Golbanou Moghaddas.

Text printed in black and red ink with printed marginalia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages389-411) and index.

Axolotl -- Barrel sponge -- Crown of thorns starfish -- Dolphin -- Eel -- Flatworm -- Gonodactylus -- Human -- Iridogorgia -- Japanese macaque -- Kìrìphá-kò, the honey badger -- Leatherback -- Mystaceus -- Nautilus -- Octopus -- Pufferfish -- Quetzalcoatlus -- Right whale -- Sea butterfly -- Thorny devil -- 'Unicorn' : the goblin shark -- Venus's girdle -- Waterbear -- Xenoglaux -- Xenophyophore -- Yeti crab -- Zebra fish.

From Axolotl to Zebrafish, meet a world of 'barely imagined beings': real creatures that are often stranger and more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thought we knew and some we could never have contemplated, and invites us to better imagine the world around us. An extraordinary, vivid combination of natural history and spiritual primer, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a mind-expanding, wonder-inducing read.