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A Guide to Worldwide Cowries

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Expensive, but worth it. I have seen numerous other cowrie books (Burgess, Allen, Wallis, etc.) and believe nothing comes close. Lots of specimens showing lots of species variation. Highly recommended.

Without bogging the reader down with endless scientific minutae, this book treats the entire family of cowries in a manner useful to scientists and serious amatures alike. I have several books on cowries and this by far is best. The feature I especially like is the large quantity of high quality photographs of each species giving the reader not just many examples of each species but showing all the subspecies and varieties and explaining the differences. The explanations of the biology, life cycles, habitat and habits etc. is easily understood by nonscientists yet very useful to scientists. My copy came without a dust jacket so I asume that it was published that way...While this book may be purchased directly from the publisher the savings is only slight and is eaten up by the shipping costs from Germany. I recieved mine from Amazon in less than 2 weeks by UPS ground.

The other reviews have said it better than I can and I agree with them all.
The only thing I can add to the other reviews, is this book is worth the wait and if you think it might be a bit pricey, check out the prices on some of the college text books today. This book is worth every penney to the amateur and serious cowry collector.

I bought this book with my shell club direct from the publisher. It does not come with a dust jacket. I'd looked at several of the existing books on Caowries before I purchased. It's my immediate go to reference! Weel worth the price.