Seashore (Collins Gem)

Preston-Mafham, Ken

Preston-Mafham, Rod

Reference

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

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.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Harper Uk

A fascinating introduction to the different habitats and creatures to be found along the coastline. With more than 240 color photographs, this is the ideal guide to take on seashore rambles. Divided into different coastline habitats for ease of use, Collins Gem Seashore is the ideal guide 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. Introductions to seaweeds, worms, molluscs, arthopods, fish, birds, and mammals, and many other shore-line inhabitants are presented in a clear, accessible manner. This portable, informative book is perfect for any excursion to the shore.

Witness the dazzling mid-air copulations of slugs, the transvestism of dung beetles, the "lovedarts" of snails, the pre- and post-nuptial snack-smearing strategies of millipedes and centipedes, the dance of the scorpions, and spiders that tie their mates down with "bridal veils" of silk. Splendidly illustrated from nature, this encyclopedia describes with rigour and grace some of the most complex and bizarre behaviours in the animal world. Rod and Ken Preston-Mafham document and describe the whole fascinating gamut of behaviour of land-living invertebrates such as worms, snails and slugs, insects, spiders and many other small animals. They reveal routines of courting, mating, egg-laying, raising families, defending and attacking, hunting, and eating that exhibit trickery, violence, deception, and odd sexual practices that are generally rare throughout the animal kingdom. The 200 color photographs from the authors' own archives, all taken in the wild, and 40 line drawings illustrate as many forms of behaviour as possible. An extensive bibliography captures a wealth of research on the workings of the natural world. The Preston-Mafhams have spent years traveling the world in search of strange animals and behaviours and have produced a number of previous books on subjects ranging from grasshoppers to cacti. Rod Preston-Mafham is a professional biologist who took up writing full time after twenty years as a biology teacher. Ken Preston-Mafham is a top wildlife photographer. Together with Rod's wife Jean, the Preston-Mafhams run Premaphotos Wildlife, a photo library containing a wide range of mainly natural history subjects, which are used in publications throughout the world.

The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Mit Pr

This illustrated dictionary covers over 1100 species and varieties of cacti. It concentrates on globular cacti, the kind most people grow. A comprehensive A-Z index is included in this non-academic reference.

Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cassell

Illustrates and identifies different cacti by providing each plants scientific name, characteristics, distribution sites, and variant names

Blandford Pr

Spiders of the World (Of the World Series)

This study covers succinctly, and using photographs and diagrams the lifestyle and behaviour of the world's spiders. It is suitable as a basic natural history reference text for the individual, schools and colleges, museums and so on.

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Butterflies of the World

Book by Preston-Mafham, Rod, Preston-Mafham, Ken

Children's Books

Animals

Spiders: They are exquisitely beautiful and wildly repulsive. They are deadly and beneficial. And they are a source of great fascination--and boundless fear!--to kids of all ages. This wonderfully readable book explores the science and natural history of the spiders' world, taking in arachnids from the exotic black widows and tarantulas to all sorts of everyday and garden variety (literally) species. In an engaging manner, and with plenty of illustrations, Spiders describes the highly individual life styles, variety, and appearance of these intriguing creatures. Who are their relatives? What are their families? How do they spin their webs? And how do they defend themselves? Spiders answers all these questions and many more, about “stars” of the arachnid world, like the wolf spider and the brown recluse, as well as the lesser-known but no less interesting species.

Spiders (Worldlife Library)

Voyageur Pr

The Book of Spiders

Nature & Ecology

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Seashore (Collins Gem)

Seashore (Collins Gem)

Seashore (Collins Gem)

The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour

Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary

Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary

Spiders of the World (Of the World Series)

Butterflies of the World

Spiders (Worldlife Library)

The Book of Spiders