The Sandy Shore by John Hay / Hardcover 1968 / Nature Science Shells Marine

Description: Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! 1968 Edition, Size: 9" x 6". Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, heavy rubbing to edges, multiple white rubbing spots. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT THIS: This book is offered as a helpful guide to the riches of the shore, and as an encouragement not merely to look and leave, but to stop and look again. Any place, any town, any city is defined not only by its name, its streets and its avenues, its size and commerce, but in terms of the people who reside there and their various roles in the community. So it is with natural regions. Not a single part of any shore, despite surface similarities, is really the same as another. Virtually every foot differs in its composition of sand, silt or stone, gravel or rock, even in the angle of the waves that wash over it, the changes of geologic time, and the immediate weather — be it summer calm or winter storm. Each area may also be defined in terms of the animals that inhabit it. They live there because every one of them, from the largest to the most microscopic, is a brilliant success. Each represents a form and a way of life which has survived millions of years of evolutionary trial and change. Accordingly, The Sandy Shore has some important residents — from the horseshoe crab, a senior citizen of the earth, to the tern, a graceful sea bird that knows more about world travel than most of us ever dreamed of. Illustrated by Edwardand Marcia Norman.

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