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Synopsis
An Environmentally Friendly Shell Book and Game.
There are not as many shells as there were five years ago. Not as many as ten years ago. Not nearly as many as twenty years ago. Why?? This unusual book contains a Flash Card Game with a Timer and Text that describes how to identify, collect, and learn about shells without killing the defenceless inhabitants of these Jewels from the Sea. No other shell book teaches us how to collect Perfect Specimens without the ecological cruelty favoured by so many scientists when they insist "Collect Live." Together with simple ideas for display, particularly aboard boats where space is limited, I include a Colour Catalogue identifying Shells common to the Bahamas and Florida.
The text was corrected by R. Tucker Abbott, research scientist and field collector for 40 years at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Abbott, author of innumerable texts, is also the First Director of the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida and is one of the great malacologists and leading conchologists of this century.
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About the Author
Broadening her roles of wife, mother of three, and President of Cemac Limited, Cecile Mactaggart decided to try editing The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, followed by an Anthology - A Scrapbook for Sandy. Emboldened by results which somewhat mitigated her terror of Writing, she then authored A Book of Shells. All three are now being released to the public through her latest Business Venture, Cemac Publishing.
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It seems to me that as a Carribean Full Moon stirs nameless longings in all save the most insensitive heart, so it must also hold some strange fascination for shells.
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A Shell Game
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