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Book Reviews of Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World

Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World
Platypus The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World
Author: Ann Mozley Moyal, Ann Moyal
ISBN-13: 9781560989776
ISBN-10: 1560989777
Publication Date: 9/1/2001
Pages: 240
Rating:
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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2.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 2
I've never really been a science person, so I push myself to read challenging topics. I definitely don't recommend this book for the casual reader: too detailed, too many scientific terms, reads like a 700 page book instead of only 200. Honestly, I would've been satisfied with a magazine article. :-P

HOWEVER... if you enjoy this type of thing, you will LOVE this book. It is very well written, full of obviously well-researched facts, and gives great background about the competition to categorize species and the personalities involved. And all this happened just a few years before the Civil War, as if these people were on a different planet instead of just across the ocean! Anyway, I learned enough to satisfy my curiosity and am now very willing to pass the opportunity to someone else. :-)