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| The Book of Dolphins | 
| Author: Mark Carwardine
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1698653
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1855857375
Dewey Decimal Number: 551
EAN: 9781855857377
ASIN: 1855857375
Publication Date: October 1999
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Condition: Good shape, medium wear.
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Book Description
All in color! Celebrate one of the most magnificent, playful, and engaging creatures on earth. Over 100 large-size, dramatic color photographs taken throughout the world give an up-close and personal look at dolphins--their diversity, physiology, social structure, and environment, as well as other "dolphin mysteries." How intelligent are they? Why do dolphins get stranded on beaches? Are they always as unselfish and good-natured as their reputation suggests? How much pleasure do they take in human company? Stories about "rescue operations" in which dolphins have lured sharks away from swimmers, as well as their role in military operations, illustrate why we have long felt a special bond with these animals. For those interested in dolphin watching and conservation, there's advice on where to go to find them, how to swim with them, recognizing behavior patterns, and how to help preserve them. Includes a chart identifying species from the Atlantic hump-backed to the Tucuxi. Trim size: 9 x 12.
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 Most Educational. December 15, 2004
Just as soon as I took delivery of this book, I was aware I had a quality product in my hands. It is a large coffee table book containing 160 pages packed with information and photographs of the highest calibre.
The author's list of credits is impressive by any standards; He is a zoologist who has worked for several conservation projects around the world (including WWF, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Conservation Union), is the author or co-author of over 30 books on this and similar subjects and is a Consultant to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. He also took every single photograph in the book.
As David Bellamy says in his foreword "This is what I like about this superb book. It's not a 'doom and gloom' catalogue of destruction, but a celebration of the magic of Dolphins - and a warning of severe problems to come if we don't change our ways." Says it all really.
I particularly like the way in which the book is laid out. With Chapters headed; Dolphin family, Dolphin design, Sensing the environment, A day in the life of a Dolphin, Research, Mysteries, Dolphins and people, Watching Dolphins and Save the Dolphin, we get an immediate sense that everything you ever wanted to know about the many different aspects of the Dolphin will be found right here in this single book. You will not be disappointed.
Altogether a great book and one which is most educational - even for people like myself who frequently encounter Dolphins as part of their work.
NM
 the 2nd best book of dolphins October 14, 2000
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book,it has plenty of information and okay photo's.This book really struck me with the part of saving the dolphins,it really gives u a feeling of what is still going on with these intellegent,loving creatures. I also recomend Dolphins by Tim Cahill
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