Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Abridged edition - Hardcover

Klauber, Laurence M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520040384 ISBN 13: 9780520040380

Publisher: University of California Press, 1982

Synopsis

This virtual encyclopedia of the rattlesnake became a natural history sensation when it was first published in 1956. The republication of the Second Edition, with a new foreword by Harry W. Greene, will give amateur and professional herpetologists alike reason to rejoice.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book is written to outline our present knowledge of rattlesnake habits and life histories. It includes numbers of field observations from varied sources in the hope that it may aid in the correction of some of the dubious accounts long current in popular natural histories.

About the Author:

Laurence M. Klauber was an electrical engineer who began seriously studying reptiles in his forties. He volunteered to become the San Diego Zoo's first Curator of Reptiles, and his fascination with snakes and lizards eventually brought him international scientific recognition. He died in 1968 at the age of eighty-four.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0520040384
• ISBN 13: 9780520040380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400