High Tide Professor J.L.B Smith ( Southern African Fish )

Hardback. Books of Africa 1968.165 pages inc index.

DJ is tatty . Book has some marks and yellowing as one would expect but is intact. Please feel free to ask questions

" This outstanding collection of selected articles is by the South African scientist and author - the Coelacanth man- who in his life-time brought to light many secrets of our southern seas. His adventurous sorties in small craft through often badly charted seas off northern Mocambique with his wife; his discoveries and observations on sharks, whales, barracudas, toxic fish and sea snakes, as well as fabulous smaller creatures such as sea horses and mud-hoppers ( fish that climb trees), are among those dealt with in this fascinating book and are fully illustrated.

Each chapter tells its own vivid story and reflects another aspect of this pioneer in his own field of Icthyology - a man incidentally, who when he needed a plane urgently, rang up the Prime Minister and got it. This book will appeal not only to fishermen but to everyone interested in the exciting and little-nown marine life off the shores of Southern Africa."