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Roland van Hentig’s Coral World
with a contribution from Alec Nisbet.
Hardback with dust jacket in worn condition. Dust jacket is rubbed at corners and there is a small tear to the front upper edge. very slight foxing to endpapers but inside pages otherwise in good condition.
This book sets out to fill the gap between academic papers and specialist books on marine biology. van Hentig records and discusses the ecology of reefs while making a series of films for BBC and German TV. In the final chapter Alec Nisbet talks of the work the Cambridge Starfish Research Group when studying the crown of thorns starfish in the Red Sea.
103 pages. black and white and colour photographs throughout
200 mm x 280 mm (approx. 8 in x 10.25 in)
1973, BBC, London
