AUTHOR BEN HOARE
ILLUSTRATOR KALEY MCKEAN
PUBLISHER DORLING KINDERSLEY
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ne way to describe the plants, animals and natural phenomena in this lovely hardback from DK would indeed be weird and wonderful. The Cook’s pine trees on the New Caledonian islands in the Pacific Ocean fit the bill: they all tilt towards the equator no matter where they grow, and the farther from the equator they are, the more they lean towards it, which scientists still cannot explain. is full of these little mysteries, as well as odd stuff that science can explain like the immortal jellyfish, which we’ve featured in How It Works before
