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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Tanned with age. Sought after due to the shear detail in this book. No notes or highlighting. 1970 edition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> As natural history has within the last half century occupied theattention and pens of the ablest philosophers of the more enlightenedparts of the globe there needs no apology for the following sheets;since the days of darkness are now. past when the researches ofthe naturalist were considered as trivial and uninteresting.GEORGE MONTAGU:Testacea Britannica. 1803Many books have been written about the natural history ofBritish shores. There are very many more dealing with thestructure habits and classification of the numerous groups ofanimals and plants which are found upon them. The shorehere regarded as the region between extreme high and extremelow spring tides 2 may at first sight appear but a small areato have received so much attention at the hands of thenaturalists. There are somewhat over 600000 acres of shorearound the British Isles but this is little compared with theland mass of these islands and almost negligible in com-parison with the vast expanse of the surrounding seas. Yetthis narrow strip holds an interest altogether out of pro-portion to its extent. This is due in the first place tothe unique richness of its population; in the second placeto the fact that here alone we can see and handle the in-habitants of the sea; in the third place to the diversity andbeauty of the adaptations which have fitted its inhabitants forlife on the shore.