Author: Richard KilburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shells
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Sea Shells of Southern Africa
Author: Richard KilburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shells
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A Photographic Guide to Sea Shells of Southern Africa
Author: Douw SteynPublisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Written for both casual and serious shell collectors, this guide focuses on the essentials of shell identification in southern Africa, presenting 262 species that are most likely to be seen in the region.
Marine Shells of South Africa
Author: George Brettingham SowerbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Marine Shells of South Africa
Author: George Brettingham SowerbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Identification Guide to the Seashells of South Africa
Author: Alan D. SeccombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sea-shells of Southern Africa
Author: The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Author: Cynthia BarnettPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393651452
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.
Seashells of Southern Florida
Author: Paula M. MikkelsenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691239452
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 947
Book Description
Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna. The Keys are home to nearly sixty taxonomic families of bivalves such as clams and mussels--roughly half the world's bivalve family diversity. The first in a series of three volumes on the molluscan fauna of the Keys and adjacent regions, Seashells of Southern Florida: Bivalves provides a comprehensive treatment of these bivalves, and also serves as a comparative anatomical guide to bivalve diversity worldwide. Paula Mikkelsen and Rüdiger Bieler cover more than three hundred species of bivalves, including clams, scallops, oysters, mussels, shipworms, jewel boxes, tellins, and many lesser-known groups. For each family they select an exemplar species and illustrate its shell and anatomical features in detail. They describe habitat and other relevant information, and accompany each species account with high-resolution shell photographs of other family members. Text and images combine to present species--to family-level characteristics in a complete way never before seen. The book includes fifteen hundred mostly color photographs and images of shells, underwater habitats, bivalves in situ, original anatomical and hinge drawings, scanning electron micrographs, and unique transparent--shell illustrations with major organ systems color-coded and clearly shown. Seashells of Southern Florida: Bivalves is the most complete guide to subtropical bivalves available. It is an essential tool for students and teachers of molluscan diversity and systematics, and an indispensable identification guide for collectors, scuba divers, naturalists, environmental consultants, and natural-resource managers.
Offshore Shells of Southern Africa
Author: Douw Gerbrand SteynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gastropoda
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Botanical Exploration Southern Africa
Author: Mary GunnPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780869611296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.