Pacific Coast Shells, Including Shells of Hawaii and the Gulf of California

by Percy A. Morris

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395080290
• ISBN13: 9780395080290
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Seashells are the most exquisite of all architecture

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.

Seashells are the most exquisite of all architecture

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.