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Marine Life
The Art of Diving and Adventure in the Underwater World - Nick Hanna and Alexander Mustard 
“Come, dive into Nick Hanna and Alexander Mustard’s bright blue world. This is the best book about diving since Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World. Here turtles bow, flounders court, sharks skulk and, best of all, divers leap, soar and even meditate. Alex has a unique eye. This is dynamic underwater imagery at its best. Nick Hanna's engaging text brilliantly brought to life Alexander Mustard’s amazing collection of award winning images. The lure of the underwater world, meetings with remarkable creatures, the art of fish watching, free diving, the fate of the oceans and more.
Remarkable photographs convey the experience of diving as never before and allow the reader to share in the authors’ fascinating journey into the magical ocean world.
Every facet of the experience of being underwater is exploded in this remarkable book which captures the soul of scuba diving. For the armchair reader as well as the enthusiast – a compelling inner voyage of self- discovery.
ISBN 13:9780954519926
Price: £20.00
Underwater Photography - Paul Kay
This beautifully illustrated title by award-winning underwater photographer Paul Kay combines stunning photography and informative text to inspire and instruct anyone who wants to capture their own unique underwater images. By breaking down the subject into manageable, thematic chapters, Underwater Photography offers a comprehensive range of information suitable for all readers, regardless of previous experience.
ISBN 13: 9781861083227
Price: £24.95
Marine fish and Invertebrates of Northern Europe - Frank Emil Moen & Erling Svensen
Foreward by Prof David Bellamy OBE., BSc., PhD., Hon: FLS., DSc., D.Univ., C.Biol. President of The Conservation Foundation, Coral Cay Conservation, The marine Conservation Society of Australia and The Galapagos Conservation Trust.
"Based on sound science and wreathed with real life pictures this superb book not only allows you to name their names but to understand the roles each creature plays in the balance of marine life. This very useful book will not only speed our understanding and hence enjoyment of all we see when down beside or below the sea, but will allow us to interface with our ancestors over the last 600 million years of creative evolution. Our genesis, via the not so simple sponges through the sea squirts to the fishes and beyond are all there waiting for you to discover".
ISBN 13: 9780954406028
RRP £39.99, Special BSAC Members Price £29.99
Great British Marine Animals(2nd Edition) - Paul Naylor
From the majestic basking shark, the second largest fish in the world, to the tiny but dazzlingly colourful jewel anemone, a spectacular array of animals live in British coastal waters. Just as impressive as their wide-ranging sizes, forms and colours, are the amazing ways they get food, defend themselves and produce their young.
Great British Marine Animals will open your eyes to the beautiful and extraordinary creatures that inhabit the sea around us. Photographs are used both to aid identification of the common animals and to show how they go about their lives. The book is written for anyone who loves the sea or is fascinated by wildlife, including snorkellers and divers.
Most of the material in this 2nd edition of Great British Marine Animals is the same as in the 1st edition. The book has been expanded to include details of 30 additional species, and 90 of the 420 photographs are new. By popular demand, the front cover has been changed to incorporate the charismatic tompot blenny.
From the majestic basking shark, the second largest fish in the world, to the tiny but dazzlingly colourful jewel anemone, a spectacular array of animals live in British coastal waters. Just as impressive as their wide-ranging sizes, forms and colours, are the amazing ways they get food, defend themselves and produce their young.
Great British Marine Animals will open your eyes to the beautiful and extraordinary creatures that inhabit the sea around us. Photographs are used both to aid identification of the common animals and to show how they go about their lives. The book is written for anyone who loves the sea or is fascinated by wildlife, including snorkellers and divers.
Most of the material in this 2nd edition of Great British Marine Animals is the same as in the 1st edition. The book has been expanded to include details of 30 additional species, and 90 of the 420 photographs are new. By popular demand, the front cover has been changed to incorporate the charismatic tompot blenny.
ISBN 13: 9780952283157
Price: £15.00
Fish Face - David Doubilet
Fish hate to have their picture taken. They dislike it even more than cats, birds, wild orang-utans or two-year-olds - a fish portraitist is an underwater oxymoron. It is virtually impossible to be a Karsh of the coral reef. Exquisite photographic moments in the sea are even more rare than those on land, and time underwater is constantly constrained by physics and physiology. For humans, fish appear as alien creatures living in a weightless twilight world. For fish, human divers appear to be not just aliens but true monsters with giant blank, masked eyes and Medusa-like pipes sprouting from their heads, making violent bubbling noises. When we do meet it is fleeting, but at times we are face to face, and I am looking into the extraordinary turret eyesthat see 180 degrees on each side of the fish's face. Then there are small moments when suddenly there seems to be an expression. Fish are caricatures of humans - floating cartoons. Groupers look like everybody's Uncle Max and should be smoking cigars. Parrot fish, with their protruding teeth, al lseem to be named Lou. The Red velvet fish from Tasmania has a swept back dorsal fin that resembles a pompadour, giving it an Elvis-like look. The Elephant fish looks like Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Thatcher.
There are crustaceansand turtles in this book as well as fish. I have included them because they share the same wonderful weightless expressions that fish have. And the variety is endless - from the nightmare-like faces of the Stargazer, to endearing faces like that of the Harlequin tusk fish with its tiny, bright blue, tusk-like teeth.
Most fish Pictures show fish swimming away into the blue, but for a moment, in this book, they look at us.
Fish hate to have their picture taken. They dislike it even more than cats, birds, wild orang-utans or two-year-olds - a fish portraitist is an underwater oxymoron. It is virtually impossible to be a Karsh of the coral reef. Exquisite photographic moments in the sea are even more rare than those on land, and time underwater is constantly constrained by physics and physiology. For humans, fish appear as alien creatures living in a weightless twilight world. For fish, human divers appear to be not just aliens but true monsters with giant blank, masked eyes and Medusa-like pipes sprouting from their heads, making violent bubbling noises. When we do meet it is fleeting, but at times we are face to face, and I am looking into the extraordinary turret eyesthat see 180 degrees on each side of the fish's face. Then there are small moments when suddenly there seems to be an expression. Fish are caricatures of humans - floating cartoons. Groupers look like everybody's Uncle Max and should be smoking cigars. Parrot fish, with their protruding teeth, al lseem to be named Lou. The Red velvet fish from Tasmania has a swept back dorsal fin that resembles a pompadour, giving it an Elvis-like look. The Elephant fish looks like Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Thatcher.
There are crustaceansand turtles in this book as well as fish. I have included them because they share the same wonderful weightless expressions that fish have. And the variety is endless - from the nightmare-like faces of the Stargazer, to endearing faces like that of the Harlequin tusk fish with its tiny, bright blue, tusk-like teeth.
Most fish Pictures show fish swimming away into the blue, but for a moment, in this book, they look at us.
ISBN 13: 9780714843018
Price: £12.95
British Sea Fishes - Dr Frances Dipper
If you are a diver, snorkeller, sports fisherman, or seashore enthusiast this book is for you. Revised, and expanded to cover more species in greater detail, this new edition of British Sea Fishes is devoted entirely to the fish found around the coasts of Great Britain - and most of the 100-plus species described are illustrated with colour photographs of the fishes in their natural habitat. An accurate drawing serves to highlight important identification features. Combined with the clear, simple and informative text, it should allow even complete beginners to identify accurately the fish they see. 185mm x 240mm softback. 194pp.
If you are a diver, snorkeller, sports fisherman, or seashore enthusiast this book is for you. Revised, and expanded to cover more species in greater detail, this new edition of British Sea Fishes is devoted entirely to the fish found around the coasts of Great Britain - and most of the 100-plus species described are illustrated with colour photographs of the fishes in their natural habitat. An accurate drawing serves to highlight important identification features. Combined with the clear, simple and informative text, it should allow even complete beginners to identify accurately the fish they see. 185mm x 240mm softback. 194pp.
ISBN 13: 9780946020317
Price: £17.95
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