Sharks (Collins Gem) - Softcover

Compagno, Leonard; Dando, Marc; Fowler, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060849762 ISBN 13: 9780060849764

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a book

• How to identify some of the most common sharks and rays, including the Great White, hammerheads, sawfish, and stingrays

• Information on the biology of sharks and their conservation

• Details on size, distribution, food, breeding, and danger to humans

Published in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, America's foremost authority in history and science.

About this title

About the Author:

Sarah Fowler works in marine ecology, biodiversity, conservation and management, with a particular focus on sharks. Appointed to the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Shark Specialist Group on its establishment in 1991 and now co-chair, Sarah also co-founded the UK Shark Trust and the European Elasmobranch Association and is an American Elasmobranch Society's Conservation Committee member.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060849762
• ISBN 13: 9780060849764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256