Shells

by S. Peter Dance

Book Overview

The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 species of seashells from around the world. Authoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564580601
• ISBN13: 9781564580603
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Shells, Shells, and More Shells

The marvels of Seashells, can be found in this book. We have been collecting seashells for years. How many? I am not gonna tell. On a whim, I picked out this book to find out what types of shells we had rounded up over the years. My hubby and I had a blast. The sizes and details, and the most colorful pictures ever in this book, had us hooked. We took our shells out and started sorting them out. I never knew there were so many types of shells, from all over the world. This book goes into great detail to tell you the regions, the habitats,species and etc, of over 500 species from around the world. I can't even to begin to give out the names of these beautiful shells. Some of our collection contained Tritons, Helmet, conch shells, whelks, and many, many more. We enjoyed this task, and with the help of this book, we had a ball. I do recommend taking a glance at this colorful book on shells and the like. Happy hunting.

Great Book

This book is the best information on shells and the service from the seller was excellent

I thought it was a fantastic first-field guide.

However, I was a little annoyed at the scarcity of the other regions in the book,mostly because I was interested in finding out about the shells within the area in which I visit to go shelling. However, I thought it was a wonderful first-field-guide with excellent color pictures, specific descriptions, indication of common\uncommon, and the size of the shells.

This book is one of the greatest shell handbooks in print.

I have been collecting shells for around 20 years and never bothered to get a book about them until now. My 4 year old daughter started collecting and I wanted to make sure I had all the answers to her questions about shells. This is definatly the book to have. She is facinated by the great pictures and the cut-aways of the shells. This is a must have for your shelf.

The best book for beginner shell-collector I've ever seen

I am collecting shells for more than 11 years. At the beginning of this activety I found a lot difficulties in species identification, in determianation of their position in the molluscan systematics. The book of S.Peter Dance was the first guide I had obtained. This book introduced me to the world of "professional" shell-collecting. It showed me the way of collection arrangement, specimen cleaning and labling. I learned a lot of new data on ecology, geographic distribution and systematic of molluscs. Really, it is best book for beginner shell-collector I've ever seen and I greatly suggest it to all beginners and even advanced collectors. The wonderfull photoes of the book makes identification easy, the system of legends and signs (accepted in all other Eyewitness Handbooks) provides brief but very convinient information on geography, ecology, sizes and rarity of the species. Even now (having over 1.500 molluscs species and a lot of identificaton guieds) I oft! en look through this book and gain nesessary information. Unfortunatly, the book deal with marine molluscs only. I am shure, that the books of such quality on land and fresh-water molluscs would be greatly apreciated by collectors.