UPDATED & EXPANDED: The #1 Bestselling Florida Seashell Guide Now Even Better!

Discover the complete world of Florida's seashells with this must-have guide for beachcombers, collectors, and nature enthusiasts.

The new edition features:

• 287 Species Identified - More varieties than ever before
• 400+ Stunning Full-Color Images
• 175 Detailed Range Maps
• Easy-to-Follow Organization System

What sets this guide apart:

• Showcases shells exactly as you'll find them on Florida beaches
• Organized for quick and easy identification
• Perfect for both beginners and experienced collectors
• Durable construction ideal for beach use

Transform your beachcombing experience! Whether you're a casual collector or serious enthusiast, this guide helps you:

• Identify rare and common specimens
• Understand shell formation and habitat
• Learn fascinating shell facts and stories
• Discover prime shell-finding locations

PERFECT BEACH COMPANION: Lightweight and practical, take it right to the beach for instant identification of your finds!

Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700 full-color identification photographs organized visually by color and shape, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Shells is an essential book for beach-combers and divers on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America and the West Indies. Discover the sea's treasures with this handy guide, which features gorgeous photos and detailed information on living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles, conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles.

With simple organization, this guide tells the individual stories of 213 shelled mollusks using descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and color photographs. Accounts feature glimpses of each seashell's former life as a living creature. The organization and descriptions as well as the photographs make shell identification easy.

A lovely beach house book or hostess gift, perfect for any beachy coffee table.

Breezy, inviting, and delightful--just like a day at the beach--The Beachcomber's Companion is a charming illustrated guide to collecting and identifying shells and other coastal treasures. Each of the entries includes fascinating descriptions, fun tidbits, and detailed artwork that makes it easy for readers to identify their own beach discoveries.

A handy resource section offers tips on how to prepare before setting out on a shoreline adventure: from the beachcomber's commandments to must-have items for every beachcombing toolkit and advice on preserving shells.

Awash with information and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this is an essential companion for all who love the ocean's shore.

A marvelously illustrated natural history of the world's mollusks

Mollusks are invertebrate animals with a remarkable natural history and a rich fossil record, and their shells are prized for their breathtaking variety and exquisite beauty. Shells of the World provides a wide-ranging look at the incredible diversity of marine mollusks. An informative introduction outlines the lineages covered, followed by a directory section, split into classes, that profiles a broad selection of different taxa to give a sense of their sheer numbers and variety.

• Features hundreds of beautiful color photos, depicting both the live animals and their shells
• Discusses mollusk evolution, anatomy, life cycles, behavior, and ecology
• Describes unique characteristics, distribution, habitat, and size
• Provides valuable insights into the conservation of the world's marine mollusks
• Ideal for malacologists and shell collectors everywhere

Celebrate the amazing mollusk--and the timeless joy of walking along the seashore and picking up a treasure of a shell. A personal, passionate pocket field guide, infused with the spirit of an artist in love with her subject, Searching for Seashells is a perfect beachgoer's companion. Every page captures that feeling of finding something unexpected, with beautifully hand-painted images of shells interspersed with poems, interesting history, and surprising facts (did you know that limpet teeth are the strongest organic substance in the world?). It's the gift of nature's endless beauty.

In a take-anywhere package, this darling pocket guide is the perfect companion for your next beachcombing adventure. Discover surprising facts about shoreline treasures--including abalone, sand dollars, sea stars, and wrack--as well as simple ways to center yourself in a place of stillness. With calming meditations that connect you to the sounds, smells, and textures of the coast, Beachcombing makes it easy to enjoy quiet, contemplative moments by the water. Coastal dwellers, ocean-lovers, environmentalists, and mindfulness practitioners will adore this delightful book, which makes a lovely gift alongside binoculars, a beach towel, or a sun hat.

BROAD APPEAL: Beachcombing is an enjoyable, accessible pastime that not only gets your body moving but also calms your mind. This charming book will appeal to people of all ages and genders, whether they're interested in practicing mindfulness or spending more time outside--or they simply love the beach.

THOUGHTFUL GIFT: Perfect for nearly any occasion, Beachcombing is a thoughtful gift for ocean lovers and coastal dwellers. Buy Beachcombing on its own, gift it with a beach towel or a pair of sandals, or package it with other books in the Pocket Nature series, such as Cloud Spotting and Sunset Seeking (a summer-themed trio!).

NATURE AS THERAPY: As a response to our increasingly digital world, people are turning to the outdoors as an escape, as a place to bond, and as an alternative to vacations or extended travel. The shore, with its soothing sounds and stunning views, is particularly alluring. Beachcombing, like the other books in the Pocket Nature series, will resonate with a wide audience of people who are eager for simple ways to practice mindfulness, disconnect from tech, and get out of the house.

PERENNIAL & COLLECTIBLE: The topics covered in the Pocket Nature series are perennial--beaches, clouds, sunsets, and leaves will always be there to enjoy and admire. With new titles coming out every season, there will be ever-new opportunities to grow a charming collection that looks great on your bookshelf.

Perfect for:

• Beach and ocean lovers
• People who live by the shore or own a coastal vacation home
• Mindfulness practitioners, meditators, and anyone seeking simple practices for stress management
• Shoppers looking for a charming housewarming or hostess gift for a beach house
• Anyone looking for a birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, holiday, or just-because gift for nature-loving family and friends
• Readers of Thich Nhat Hanh's How to Relax, Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea, and The Beachcomber's Companion: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Identifying Beach Treasures

Authoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the most comprehensive and concise pocket guide to seashells of the world. Packed with more than 600 full-color photographs of over 500 species of seashells, this handy reference book is designed to cut through the complex process of identification and make it accessible to the average reader.

Expertly written and thoroughly vetted, each species entry combines a precise description with annotated photographs to highlight each shell's characteristics and distinguishing features. The entry always includes a distribution map, showing the geographical range of the species, as well as at-a-glance key facts. Packed with detailed information on the shape of each genus, differences between the major classes, and more, this is the clearest identification guide to seashells for beginners and established enthusiasts alike.

Seashells of the World is an introduction to the world of marine seashells, emphasizing the most attractive and best-known species. This guide will help you to:

-Identify
-Classify
-Understand the beautiful shells you see and collect

No other animals are so widely collected, traded, or bought and sold because of their beauty and rarity.

Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.

This book is a treasury of stories, science, and history about seashells. Sure to delight and surprise, this visual odyssey of the beauty of seashells reveals how shells enhance and inform the world around us. Exploring coasts and shells from across the globe, each unique shell will suddenly become familiar with The Wonder of Seashell's beautiful illustrations and fascinating insights.

Full of realistic watercolor illustrations, The Wonder of Seashells delivers illuminating facts about seashells that are often overlooked. In this book, you'll find:

• Common varieties of shells throughout the world and their spiritual meanings
• The seashell's role in the world of sea life and the ocean's ecosystems
• The significance of their patterns and colors
• Seashells in history as forms of currency, art, and musical instruments
• Seashell symbolism and cultural significance in different communities around the world
• Seashells as sources of intuition and their connection to the spirit world
• And much more!

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.

In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas.

From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature's wisdom--and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.

E Komo mai (welcome) fellow beach comber! Let your senses awaken when you journey across the shores of Hawai'i seeking treasures of land, 'aina, and sea, kai moana. As your feet sink sweetly into the soft sand or carefully tread across rough lava, 'a'a, you will discover truths about God and collect cowrie shells, leho, along the way. There is much to be learned through this sea snail that is a tiny part of God's creation. This book of inspiration, photography, and trivia about the islands overflows with God's artistry. Whether looking for some encouraging reading on your vacation or a book that can be used as a daily devotional, Beach Walks and God Talks will satisfy your soul as you join the author in listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit on your pilgrimage. Get a group together and adventure through this book of treasures. Then set it on your table to add to your ocean decor. Since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. - Romans 1:20 NIV

• Supported by the National Trust, who look after over 700 miles of Britain's coastline.
• Turns any beach into a treasure hunt. A simple, nostalgic pleasure and a connection with the wonders of nature.
• Beautifully illustrated and packed with surprising and delightful facts.

Looking for seashells and learning their names is the perfect way to explore Britain's coastline at leisure. It's a nostalgic simple pleasure, and a way to discover some of nature's most exquisite wonders. From the common cockle to the blue-rayed limpet, The Shell Spotter's Guide covers the beautiful and surprising range of mussels, oysters, periwinkles, scallops, cowries and whelks found on our beaches.

This beautifully illustrated book written by marine biologist Helen Scales is the perfect companion for all aspiring shell spotters.

Relax and delve into a world of dot-to-dots made just for you! This adult dot-to-dot book of large print, relaxing, beautiful mermaid images will put your mind at ease as you let your cares slip away and enjoy connecting a simple numbers of dots!

The puzzles in this book include a wide variety of beautiful landscape and outdoor images. Our professional artists will leave you with breathtaking finished images that you can color, tear out and hang up if you like. You'll be blown away by the drawings and can try to figure each one out as they gradually appear in front of your eyes. There is an answer key at the end in case you get stuck!

Each image is printed on high-quality paper and every drawing is followed by a blank sheet of paper so you never have to worry about tearing individual images out of the book.

You will get:

• Puzzles ranging up to 750 dots
• A wide variety of mythical, beautiful mermaid images
• Skip around and start with easier images to ease into the challenge
• Relaxation and stress relief
• Professionally created images that will amaze you when completed!
• Bonus images from other dot-to-dot books in our series!
• Answer key at the end

Enjoy the puzzles and let your stress melt away!

Although this field guide is for seashells found along the Texas coast, it will also be useful in other regions of the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean.

Stunning photographs make this guide to the seashells of Egypt's Red Sea coast a delight for scientists and beachcombers alike. Biologist Mary Lyn Rusmore-Villaume offers succinct descriptions of over five hundred species, indicating geographic range, size, color, and other details. The book is organized by taxonomy, divided between gastropods and bivalves, and each species is illustrated with one or more photographs for easy identification, all taken especially for this book by the author using shells from her own collection. All the shells most people are likely to see are included here, as well as many rare specimens (including an entirely new species discovered by the author). The species covered come from all regions of Egypt bordering the Red Sea, including the Gulf of Suez, South Sinai, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the mainland coast from Hurghada to Shalatin.
As the only guide to Egypt's Red Sea shells, this is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in the Red Sea and its rich biodiversity. Copiously illustrated and comprehensive in its approach, Seashells of the Egyptian Red Sea represents a unique contribution to the scientific knowledge of the marine fauna of this branch of the Indo-Pacific region.