Customer Reviews

Pacific Coast Shells (Peterson Field Guides)

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This book is an important guide, with lots of information about Pacific Coast Shells. Includes for each shell Name, Range (where can be found), habitat, description, remarks (special notes in some cases).

Why I am giving 3 stars to this book is because, while it has many... many pictures of shells, only eight of them are in full colors! The rest is in black and white! All the pictures are right in the middle of the book, not acompanying each shell description, as I was hoping. This is a great book, I hope this issue with pictures without proper colors is fixed in the future.

I was wanting to know the names of various shells that I received from some friends that visited the West Coast of Calif. I use them in crafts and like to know what kind they are. This book did help, but I just wished that all the pictures could have been in color, not just part of them.

As a child growing up on the eastern seaboard of the U.S., and obsessed with seashells, the shells of the Pacific Ocean beckoned to me more strongly than the sirens in my 8th grade Latin book.

And this was the book that fueled by imaginations. The heck with Botticelli and his "Venus on a half-shell" -- this book illustrates and explains some of the most beautiful pieces of calcium carbonate ever secreted by man or mollusc.

As a child growing up on the eastern seaboard of the U.S., and obsessed with seashells, the gastropods of the Pacific Ocean beckoned to me more strongly than any seaweed bedecked sirens in my 8th grade Latin book.

And this was the book that fueled by imaginations. The heck with Botticelli and his "Venus on a half-shell" or Cyndy Crawford's teeth -- this book illustrates and explains some of the most beautiful pieces of calcium carbonate ever secreted by man or mollusc.