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Queste illustrazioni a pagina intera in bianco e nero permetteranno ai lettori di avvicinarsi agli animali più selvaggi, da un maestoso leone a dieci zebre. Testi poetici e semplici, fatti per mostrarci come gli animali considerati a rischio vivono e sopravvivono sulla Terra. Un libro per conoscere gli animali in via di estinzione. Prefazione di Virginia McKenna. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.
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Patricia Cornwell is recognized as one of the world’s top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. Her novels have won numerous prestigious awards including the Edgar, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Anthony, the Macavity and the Prix du Roman d’Aventures. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Patricia has written a definitive book about Jack the Ripper, a biography and two more fiction series among others. Cornwell, a licensed helicopter pilot and scuba diver, actively researches the cutting-edge forensic technologies that inform her work. She was born in Miami, grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston.Lindsay Crouse received an Oscar® nomination for her performance in Places in the Heart and her film credits include The Insider and Prefontaine.
Riassunto
Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a "Mr. Nobod", moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage...but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical examiner -- Kay Scarpetta -- is determined to unmask a maniac. But someone is trying to sabotage Kay's investigation from the inside. And worse yet, someone wants her dead...
