{"id":5991,"date":"2024-09-20T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T08:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2024-09-20T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:39:21","slug":"the-wonder-of-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/2024\/09\/20\/the-wonder-of-life-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonder of Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Life on Earth holding cover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/195807038@N08\/54007339582\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54007339582_bbd0bf87ee_b.jpg\" alt=\"Life on Earth holding cover\" width=\"287\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a>One of the criticisms of my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/henry-gee\/a-very-short-history-of-life-on-earth\/9781529060584\"><em>A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth<\/em><\/a> was that it lacked illustrations of the many creatures mentioned therein. To fill what seems to be a yawning <del datetime=\"2024-09-20T08:05:03+00:00\">chasm<\/del> <del datetime=\"2024-09-20T08:05:03+00:00\">lacuna<\/del> hole I&#8217;m pleased to announce that there will be an illustrated version, aimed at younger readers (9-11 years). It&#8217;ll be called<a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/henry-gee\/the-wonder-of-life-on-earth\/9781035024247\"> <em>The Wonder of Life on Earth<\/em><\/a>. The text is all-new, and it&#8217;s currently being illustrated by Raxenne Maniquiz. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handsomefrank.com\/illustrators\/raxenne-maniquiz\">Click here<\/a> to get a flavour of her wonderfully rich natural history art. It&#8217;s available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/henry-gee\/the-wonder-of-life-on-earth\/9781035024247\">preorder<\/a>, so put it in your Christmas shopping order &#8230; for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the criticisms of my book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth was that it lacked illustrations of the many creatures mentioned therein. To fill what seems to be a yawning chasm lacuna hole I&#8217;m pleased to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/2024\/09\/20\/the-wonder-of-life-on-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5994,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}