Seashore
Collins (Publisher)
Published on 7. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-00-715400-5 (ISBN)
Description
Divided into different coastline habitats for ease of use, this guide to the seashore should prove handy for families and children. Featured habitats include cliffs, rocky shores, sand dunes, saltmarsh, shingle and the strandline. The book includes full details of the many species to be found within each habitat and introductions to seaweeds, worms, molluscs, arthropods, fish, birds and mammals, and many other shoreline inhabitants.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
240 col illus, Index
Dimensions
Height: 117 mm
Width: 82 mm
Weight
148 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-715400-5 (9780007154005)
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Persons
Rod and Ken Preston-Mafham, the authors of this title, together with Rod's wife Jean, run Premaphotos Wildlife, a natural history picture library based in Cornwall which boasts a stock of 75,000 colour photographs. Rod and Ken are also prolific authors and their books include The Natural History of Insects, The Natural History of Spiders, The Encyclopaedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour and Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary.