Author: George Brettingham Sowerby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: D. G. Steyn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Over 1400 colour images illustrate the more than one thousand species of shells and their variants to be found in this book. Notes on collecting and shell morphology as well as a glossary introduce the subject, with the main body of text being devoted to shell identification.

Author: Denis Harper Kennelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Douw Steyn
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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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.

Author: Alan D. Seccombe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: George Brettingham Sowerby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: David Berschauer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692114209
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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This is a field guide to marine mollusks. Thisbook was created to fill, what is perceived to be, a void in the popular literature, namely an affordable reference guide to the sea shells found in the CalifornianMarine Molluscan Province. It is not intended as a comprehensive compendium ofthe shelled marine mollusks in the province, but rather is limited to those taxalikely to be encountered between the intertidal zone and depths ordinarilyaccessible by scuba diving. Some deeper water taxa are included because they areparticularly beautiful, well known or popular. Specifically excluded are thosespecies which we deemed to be micro shells, namely species where the average sizeis 7 mm or less; this necessarily excludes a great many families of marine mollusks.

Author: Richard Kilburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shells
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Cynthia Barnett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393651452
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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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.