Written by a professional pelagic birding tour guide and photographer, this book presents a popular account of what is known about the enigmatic flyingfishes, and its illustrated with an abundance of breathtaking full-colour photographs.
After browsing through shelves and shelves of field guides in a typical nature bookshop, you might suspect theres a field guide for absolutely every group of anything you can find on the planet -- birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, plants, trees, dinosaurs -- and yes, even rocks. But theres one group of animals about which no books have ever been published; flyingfish. But naturalist Steve Howell has remedied this oversight with his new book, The Amazing World of Flyingfish [Princeton University Press, 2014; Guardian bookshop; Amazon UK; Amazon US]. Written by a professional pelagic birding tour guide and photographer, this book presents a popular account of what is known about these enigmatic fishes, and its illustrated with an abundance of beautiful full-colour photographs.
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