Table Of ContentIntroduction THE GRASSLANDS AND PLAINS Rayback and Gyrosprinter Prairie-ram Arrowtongue and Thornback Butchertree and Prismalope THE FOREST AND PERIPHERY Grove-back Flipstick Forset Slider and Gulper Daggerwrist Finned Snapper THE AMOEBIC SEA AND LITTORAL ZONE Sac-back Emperor Sea Strider Sea Strider Skull and Littoralope Stripewing THE MOUNTAINS Keeled Slider Springworm Bladderhorn THE TUNDRA Arctic Sedge-slider and Tundra-plow Unth and Mummy-nest Flyer Icecrawler and Rimerunner THE AIR Skewer and Symet Rugose Floater Eosapien Departure
SynopsisIn 2358, wildlife artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe joined the first manned flight to Darwin IV, fourth planet in the newly discovered F-Class binary system 6.5 light years from Earth. Now his long-awaited account of that historic journey has been published. More vivid than the holos and more interpretive than the videos, these extraordinary paintings, plus numerous drawings, studies, and sketchbook pages, transport the reader to a wild, beautiful, untouched world-a planet teeming with incredible beasts and exotic vegetation. Expedition is the most important travel book of the 24th century. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club and the Astronomy Book Club., In 2358, wildlife artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe joined the first manned flight to Darwin IV, fourth planet in the newly discovered F-Class binary system 6.5 light years from Earth. Now his long-awaited account of that historic journey has been published. More vivid than the holos and more interpretive than the videos, these extraordinary paintings, plus numerous drawings, studies, and sketchbook pages, transport the reader to a wild, beautiful, untouched world-a planet teeming with incredible beasts and exotic vegetation. "Expedition" is the most important travel book of the 24th century. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club and the Astronomy Book Club.