| View Larger Image | Seashells | Hardcoverby Josie Iselin (Author), Sandy Carlson (Author)
| List Price: | $17.95 | | Price: | $12.21 | | You Save: | $5.74 (32%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | | Page Count: | 144 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 01, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 31,842st |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Artist Josie Iselin celebrates the diversity and beauty of nature with her exquisite portraits of seashells. Like her extremely popular Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods, Seashells is not a field guide but an artful and informative portrayal of a beloved part of our natural world. The book balances the exotic with the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. In her introduction and captions, marine geologist and paleontologist Sandy Carlson introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do. Both an art book and a contemplation of nature, Seashells combines aesthetic delight in natural things with scientific fact and philosophical wonder. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 10 reviews)
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What to expect for beachcomers? by Rehana Farooqi (Darien, Il. USA)  4 Stars
February 10, 2009
This book is just that. What do you expect for beachcomers? What will you find laying around on the beach? This book doesn't explain too much in detail about those nature-made objects washed ashore(nothing like man-made things turned into something els like sea glass), but just tells what they are called, and what exactly are they or scientifically, how they are made or how they got that way. It does explain the little details of why certain shells or urchins have unusual textures and forms. It explains somewhat where they come from or where they are found. Most of the shells, urchins, sea fossils among other things mentioned in this book are from North America. It doesn't say the size, or the depth in the sea, or in more details like that. This is not really a field guide.However, It is a little bit like one. But it does give some interresting and educational information about seashells and how they are formed and what they are made of. Calcium Carbonate. Still, an ok book. I like it. I really am especially looking for a field guide, and this book came to me from UK, so I did not want to go through the trouble of returning it and I bought it used, quite cheap in a "NEW" condition. So I will treasure it amoung my other seashell books next to my large seashell collection!
-Rehana(Chicago, IL)
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Beautiful pictures by Rick von Baden Baden  5 Stars
February 08, 2009
This little book is a very interesting lillte reference of shells. IT's beautifully illustraded and has a small size, so you can keep it by your bed for fast access anytime you want to relax and see something nice.
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Exquisite Photography - Beautiful Gift Book by S. O'Neill (Pound Ridge, NY) 5 Stars
December 15, 2008
For anyone who loves the beach and all it's gifts and beauty, "seashells" is an exquisite gift of knowledge and photography. One can linger on its pages and almost feel each shell as every turn holds forth another vivid picture. It is a perfect collection.
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Simple lovely book by Ann Leibowitz (USA) 4 Stars
December 07, 2008
The photography and text in this book is lovely.I have a collection of books dealing with shells and this gives its own unique view of the subject.
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A love of seashells and the beach by An Educated Consumer (Floral Park, NY) 5 Stars
August 12, 2008
Another wonderful gift from my daughter and family for a recent birthday!
The photos, description, geographic location and history of these varieties of shells are beautiful. It is a book you will keep out for all to feast their eyes on all summer and reluctantly retire to the bookshelf come fall. Retire, you must, as when summer comes again, you can embrace this extraordinary treat.
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