Australian Seashores : A Guide for the Beach-lover, the Naturalist, the shore Fisherman and the student

Author(s): Dakin, William; Bennett, Isobel; Pope, Elizabeth

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	N/A
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Angus and Robertson
Publication Year:	1953
Publication Place:	Sydney, NSW, AU
Book ID:	000971
Catalogue(s):	Nature and Natural History

xii, 372pp plus 96 plates and three colour plates. Colour frontispiece. Cloth-bound (very sightly rounded at corners) large format hardback with extensive figures and illustrations. Indexed. A classic text, published after the author's death, reflecting Dakin's life on the Australian sea shores. 1953 reprint of 1952 original, a fascinating snap shop of Australia's coast as it was in the middle of the 20th century. Chapters on tides, waves, the light of the sea, animal and plant life, worms and insects, sea squirts, lobsters, flotsam and jetsam and more.

Keywords:

australia sea coast shore natural history