|
|
| |
Shop
| |  |
|
Best Sellers | | Home Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells | |
|  | |  | | | Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells | | | | | SKU:
ACOMMP2_book_usedgood_0789489872 | | In Stock | | Availability:
Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | This guide to shells is designed to make identification of the different varieties as simple and accurate as possible. | | | |
List Price:
| $20.00 | |
Our Price:
| $13.51
& eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
| |
You Save:
| $6.49 (32%)
|
| | |
|
| | Product Details | | Author: | S Dance | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | DK ADULT | | Publication Date: | May 15, 2002 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0789489872 | | Product Length: | 8.56 inches | | Product Width: | 5.62 inches | | Product Height: | 0.69 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.05 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.2 inches | | Package Width: | 5.8 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 15 reviews |
| |
| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 15 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
45 of 46 found the following review helpful:
 Very reliable handbook. Jul 07, 2004
By J. Connor
"film and book fanatic'."
This handbook on shells is very reliable in the field or in a studio. Dozens of mollusks, crustaceans, and other exotic shell collectibles are listed here, turning out at more than two hundred species listings! However, most featured here are east coast species or found way out of the United States, which makes it not as reliable for an American beachcoming in Santa Barbara or Baja California. For those living out on the east coast or in the Caribbean, this is an excellent and very reliable resource. Also quite fun to read as a coffee table or easy chair book.
There is a catch however, as the book is bound in low quality paperback. May show wear more quickly than Audubon leatherback guides or Peterson solid lamination and paper. Best for a landlocked ocean lover wanting to take an extraordinary look at the seas marvels and shell collectibles at a nearby store.
35 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 An ok beginner collector book Aug 07, 2006
By D. J Stemke
"Argo"
All collectors become well aware of the two most famous shell book authors as they enter a journey into this hobby; R Tucker Abbott and Peter Dance. Dance has written this book as a general shell book of world wide shells, more to promote interest than being a particularly useful field identification guide. There are at last count, somewhere around 80,000 members of the mollusks; clearly any shell book has to take that into account and only the more popular species are going to be present.
What Dance has is some representaive members of the more popular species the casual collector is likely to find or purchase. While I like the clean photographs I find the ranges that are listed for the different species are a bit too general. But again, this is a book to get one started in the hobby.
While getting very long in the tooth, don't overlook Abbotts Golden Guide of seahells for the beginner. It is a surpringly good intro book as long as you don't take the relative abundance of species listed too seriously (In other words don't put a morgage down on a Glory-of-the-Seas you'll likely be making a poor investment!).
A much better general shell book once you've found you really can't id all your worldwide shells is the Abbott/Dance Compendium of Seashells. It helps ID well over 4,000 species. Otherwise use regional guides of which there are numerous examples such as Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Abbott).
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Great Seashell Guide Feb 03, 2009
By Rehana Farooqi
"Sister of the Sea"
This is a wonderful book and very informative. It has a photo on each page of each shell along with each description of the name, what countries they come from, where in the water or in sand you find them or how deep in the sea they come from, the size they grow and how commonly found are they. I think this book is for anyone really. Weather you're beginning a collection, or collecting for a while. Serious about collecting(like me) or just like to look at interresting and beautiful shells.
Rehana(Chicago, IL)
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Excellent! Jun 27, 2007
By Roberta Hanley
"Red worm"
Shells is an excellent reference book for the beginner or seasoned shell collecter. The color photos are excellent and the general maps are helpful.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Spotty coverage Mar 29, 2011
By Daniel F. Belknap
Although this book has many beautiful pictures and drawings, it is extremely limited in the numbers of shells it discusses or portrays. I was looking for an authoritative guide and key, but it is instead a miniature coffee-table book. Arrived on time and in pristine condition.
See all 15 customer reviews on Amazon.com
| |
| |
| |  | |  |
|
Recently Viewed | You may also like ... |
|
|
