Incredible Journeys : Featuring the World's Greatest Animal Travellers

by Nigel Marven

Takes us into the world of 6 unique animal travelers, following their epic a barn swallow which flies 10,000 km from Britain to S. Africa; a caribou calf, whose trek across the Canadian tundra causes it to walk further than any other animal; a short-finned eel, which rides the ocean currents to an Australian river, where it spends 15 years before returning to its birthplace in the Pacific; the 4,000 km flight of a monarch butterfly from Canada to Mexico; a new born grey whale, which swims thousands of km from tropical to polar seas; & a rattlesnake, which navigates annually to precise destinations in the Sonoran Desert. Over 100 color photos & maps.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 2, 1997