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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells (National Audubon Society Field Guides) NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY The essential book for beach-combers and divers, this guide explores more than 705 seashells, living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles, conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles found on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America and the West Indies. The photographs are arranged by shape and color, making identification quick and easy. |
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Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells S Dance This guide to shells is designed to make identification of the different varieties as simple and accurate as possible. |
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Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification Robert Tucker Abbott A survey of the world of marine mollusks provides identification about the common shells of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America. |
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The World's Most Beautiful Seashells (Worlds Most Series) Pele Carmichael, Leonard Hill The World's Most Beautiful Seashells won the Coffee Table Book Award of the National Association of Independent Publishers for 1996. It contains 305 large format, full color photographs of rare and lovely seashells. The photographer is James H. (Pete) Carmichael, whose nature photography has appeared widely in magazines such as Audobon, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, etc. Pete is especially well-known for his work with shells, butterflies, and rainforests. The text is by Leonard Hill, a lifetime shell enthusiast, and a biologist employed by the US government who monitors the health of the oceans. At $32.95 in hardcover, the book has been considered an excellent value, and makes a great acquisition to the library of shell and nature enthusiasts. |
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Florida's Seashells Blair Witherington A guide to Florida seashells, including species common to the southeastern United States and the Caribbean. 252 species of seashells, with a color photo of each, as beachcombers are most likely to find them. |
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Florida's Fabulous Seashells: And Other Seashore Life Winston Williams, Pete Carmichael Magazine Size Paperback with 112 pages. One of the Best Books ever published on Florida's Seashells. Fantastic Color Photographs. |
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Seashells: Jewels from the Ocean Budd Titlow They have done time as jewelry and tools, as medicines, currency, and symbols of industry--and they have intrigued people, from beach-combing toddlers to serious scientists, since time began. Native interest meets natural history in this exquisitely illustrated account of the science and culture of seashells. With closeup photography and basic explanations of different shell types--univalves, bivalves, and cephalopods--how they are formed, what mollusks inhabit them, their morphology and life cycles, and much more, this is the book for anyone with an interest in seashells. This book includes information on the bewildering array of shell shapes, colors, sizes, and types, and describes where the different shells can be found throughout the world. As informative as it is visually arresting, the book will appeal to amateur and expert, collector and casual beachcomber. |
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Seashore (DK Eyewitness Explorers) David Burnie Full-color photos. The secrets of sea otters, crabs, seashells, and more are revealed in this unique photographic overview of plant and animal life inhabiting the world's coastlines. |
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Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies Percy A. Morris, R. Tucker Abbott All the information needed to collect and study shells is included in this comprehensive book, which provides the geographical range and habitat for and a detailed description of each of 800 species. Color plates show 780 species, including live animals, and 115 drawings show both animals and their shells. |
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Peterson First Guide to Shells of North America Jackie Leatherbury Douglass Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides. |