Seashells Of Georgia And The Carolinas Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
With simple organization, this guide tells the individual stories of 213 shelled mollusks using descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and color photographs. Accounts feature glimpses of each seashell’s former life as a living creature. The organization and descriptions as well as the photographs make shell identification easy.
Paperback: 84 pages
Publisher: Pineapple Press (May 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1561644978
ISBN-13: 978-1561644971
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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I love this guide! This is exactly what I was looking for, for our trip to the Outer Banks. I'm using this book as part of a homeschooling venture while we are away so I needed it to be easy to read, easy to navigate, and easy to explain. This book is paperback, but it's a very nice thick paperback. The pages are thick and glossy. All of the pictures are full color photos, not hand drawn pictures. It's really well written as each page names the shell family, its relatives, different types, its habitat, and neat little section titled "Did You Know" on each page. It's chock full of great information on identifying shells, when to go shelling, what marks are on shells, and so forth. When I first opened the book, I knew it would be a nice book that wouldn't fall apart in 6 months.I'm a frugal, stay-at-home mom, so I need my book purchases to matter and get the most bang for my buck. This book fit the bill. I also highly recommend "Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas" by the same authors. If you purchase that title, you probably won't need a second book for shell identification as it has a wonderful, complete section of them. If I had known that, I probably wouldn't have bought this book too, but I have two children who love shelling. So each book will get lots of use between the two.What would make this book even more fabulous? If it were ring bound. That's it. This is a must-have book for any beach lover, homeschooler, or shell fanatic.
This book was perfect for my needs. I live part time at the Outer Banks NC and needed a book to help me identify seashells. Most books cover the entire Atlantic coast . This covers all the locations I need. Its layout is easy and organized. I don't have to wade through exotic shells I will probably never find on my beach walks. I also frequent many other NC and SC beaches. They have also included bits of information about shells I did n't know about. Now I know why I have been finding these large black shells.
Purchased this book for my mother in law to keep at her beach house to help identify all of the shells she finds. She love it! It has beautiful illustrations and details about the different shells that she finds. She has become quite the expert on shells thanks to this book! Beautiful!
First, regarding CONTENT: Both this book, and their other book, "Our Sea Turtles" are excellent! However, Second, regarding USABILITY: I have to give them both a 1 or 2 stars at the most. Both books lock in horizontally and will NOT rotate as ALL my other books and magazines do on my Kindle, Vertically. These are the only two books I am having TROUBLE with. Needless to say, VERY frustrating. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP and I will give it 5 stars (10 if I could)
Gorgeous Clear pictures which really help with easy identification of shells. Love that this book is focused strictly on NC, SC & GA area. A copy should be in every beach house along the coasts of these three states to help friends, family, or renters identify their beachcombing finds.
The pictures in this book are great and the descriptions as well. However, there is an error in the book. The map key is wrong. In the book it states that the solid lines indicate "relatively common" and open lines "relatively uncommon" but the key shows and states the opposite. So..we weren't sure where to look for certain shells :( an error on a map key is a pretty big mistake, but the information on the shells is very nicely organized. Since we were using this as a tool to find and identity shells, I gave it a 2/5.
I bought this book for a trip to Georgia's Sapelo Island. All the shells we found were easily identifiable by use of this handy little seashell guide. I recommend this product for its easy to read maps and lists of identifying characteristics, with nice quality photographs.
This book was just exactly what I needed. It tucks easily into a beach bag. It offers clear images and fascinating facts for shell collectors. Our middle schooler even picked it up to learn more about the shells she picked up on the beach in Corolla, NC. The range maps will make it much easier to extend the varieties of our collection, by going to beaches where we are likely to find particular shells like whelks. Plus, now I know why so many shells have a single hole in them. Amazing!
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