The Living Shores of Southern Africa

This extremely valuable, and authoritative reference book on marine biology reveals the authors' enthusiasm for the sea. George Branch writes with vitality and his wife, Margo's unique water-colours of seaweeds and many more exellent line drawings as well as the outstanding colour photographs by Bannister (including 9 plates of molluscs for identification of common shells), makes this a spectacular book. The first part of the book deals with the ecology of different coastal environments and the interaction between man and sea. The second part deals with the characteristic features of each of the main groups of marine invertebrates and algae and serves as identification guide to the most common species of marine life. Appendixes. Indexes.