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Seashells

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Seashells are tiny treasures, each with unique shapes, colours, and sizes. Photographer Cindy Bilbao captures the beauty of these natural marvels through detailed images of shells from various shores, including sun-bleached fragments and vibrantly hued conchs. The book explores how these shells are formed and offers expert tips for collectors and beachcombers alike, making it a visual celebration of coastal nature.
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Format: Hardback
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This book is ideal for beach lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone interested in collecting or learning about seashells and their natural history.

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Experience the magic of the beach with this photographic collection of treasures in the sand

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Seashells are tiny treasures, each one completely unlike any other. Their variety of shapes, colours, and sizes makes collecting—and even searching for—seashells a favourite pastime of avid and occasional beachcombers alike.

As she did for the ocean's other jewels in Sea Glass and Sea Glass Seeker, photographer Cindy Bilbao captures the ridges, striations, and hues of delicate shells everywhere she finds them. Displaying sun-bleached fragments, glittering, cantaloupe-coloured nacre, and scallop shells washed by the tides, Bilbao's photographs embody magic and mystery.

From weathered quahogs and mussels on the cooler shores of New England to a rich, chestnut-coloured Florida Fighting Conch shell nestled in the sands of its namesake state, she describes in intricate detail how these shells are formed and why they look the way they do.

Complete with Bilbao's expert tips for finding the most unique shells and enjoying the hunt, Seashells is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the beach.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781682682791

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 May 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Countryman Press Inc.

Illustration: More than 100 color photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 135.0mm

Weight: 284g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Cindy Bilbao has been a photographer of the natural world from a young age. The author of Seashells, Sea Glass, Sea Glass Seeker, she lives in Pennsylvania.

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