The World Beneath

New enhanced edition of the best-selling guide to sea creatures: The World Beneath!

Meet the world's most fascinating sea creatures and explore the lives and curiosities of colourful fish and coral reefs. This spectacular volume features more than 300 colour photos and extraordinary text from a leading marine biologist and underwater photographer, who is the international expert on seahorses.

In this richly informative volume, brimming with new discoveries and more than three hundred colourful images of jaw-dropping fish and coral reefs, you'll swim in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. You'll be dazzled in the Coral Triangle and amazed in Triton Bay. Up close, you'll encounter the Cenderawasih fairy wrasse, with its fluorescent yellow streak; the polka-dot longnose filefish; and the multicoloured seadragon. There are scarlet-coloured corals, baby-blue sponges, daffodil crinoids, and all sorts of mystifying creatures that change colour at the drop of a hat. The whale shark appears almost larger than life, while the author's beloved pygmy seahorse, unless photographed, is nearly too tiny to see.

The wondrous creatures inside are charmers and tricksters, excelling in the arts of seduction and deception. You'll have the rare chance to observe and delight in their antics. You'll also learn about their diets, how they play, care for one another, live on one another, and mimic others when afraid. There is also compelling insight into the naming process, which sea creatures face extinction, and how we can help them before it's too late.

This new and expanded edition of The World Beneath includes fresh text from award-winning author Dr. Richard Smith, covering recent developments and discoveries affecting the rapidly changing landscape of the world's coral reefs. It also offers a wealth of new images from recent dives around the world and a thorough index.