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By Jana Heidersdorf.
A gorgeous art-and-worldbuilding book - a small genre which I adore - purporting to be the sketch and notebook of a sirenologist studying mermaids. The mermaids are mostly not human-intelligent, or at least if they are, humans can't tell. Some are beautiful, some are eerie, some are strange, some are all three. The notes are fascinating, and the worldbuilding on mermaids is very original and interesting. Heidersorf put a lot of thought into how aquatic ecologies work, and there's a great balance of strange fantasy and inspiration from strange real creatures. The overall effect is like reading a guidebook to natural history from another world.
I loved this book and think it's absolutely worth the price.
This was based on her limited edition book "100 Mermaids", and you can see them here.
More mermaids, many of which didn't make the book but are just as cool as the ones that did.
https://www.boredpanda.com/weird-beautiful-mermaids-jana-heidersdorf/
A gorgeous art-and-worldbuilding book - a small genre which I adore - purporting to be the sketch and notebook of a sirenologist studying mermaids. The mermaids are mostly not human-intelligent, or at least if they are, humans can't tell. Some are beautiful, some are eerie, some are strange, some are all three. The notes are fascinating, and the worldbuilding on mermaids is very original and interesting. Heidersorf put a lot of thought into how aquatic ecologies work, and there's a great balance of strange fantasy and inspiration from strange real creatures. The overall effect is like reading a guidebook to natural history from another world.
I loved this book and think it's absolutely worth the price.
This was based on her limited edition book "100 Mermaids", and you can see them here.
More mermaids, many of which didn't make the book but are just as cool as the ones that did.
https://www.boredpanda.com/weird-beautiful-mermaids-jana-heidersdorf/
