Interesting Shells

Andreia Salvador (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2022
The Natural History Museum (Verlag)
978-0-565-09510-9 (ISBN)

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Interesting Shells presents striking and beautiful shell portraits, each one specially selected by expert curators at the Natural History Museum, London.

Shells are exoskeletons of living creatures and have fascinated humans for millennia. Interesting Shells presents portraits of beautiful specimens from the Natural History Museum's vast collections, each accompanied by a caption explaining their unique characteristics - whether biological, historical or geographical.

Andreia Salvador is senior curator of Marine Mollusca, at the Natural History Museum, London. She is responsible for the curation of the Museum's marine gastropods collections, which is one of the largest resources of its kind in the world. Her research interests also include the history of collecting, voyages and expeditions in malacology, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	Over 120 colour photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 177 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-565-09510-2 / 0565095102
ISBN-13	978-0-565-09510-9 / 9780565095109
Zustand	Neuware