Sydney: New Holland, 2001. Small octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs; parrots; spiders; birds; snakes and other reptiles; and mammals... More
Hobart: Wellington Bridge Press, (2010. revised edition). Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. A fascinating compendium of shark facts and Tasmanian maritime history. It also represents the first detailed examination of Tasmanian white shark captures, encounters and attacks ever undertaken. Here the reader can chart the course of human/shark interactions in..... More
New York: Taylor & Francis, (2012. second edition). Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, colour illustrations, maps. Virtually every area of research associated with sharks and their relatives has been strongly impacted by the revolutionary growth in technology. The questions we can now ask are very different than those reported even two..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2014. Oblong format, publishers boards, photographs. Sharks engender our most primal emotion: fear. Real danger is something we seldom experience in the modern world, protected by the comforts of civilization. Yet fear is deeply inscribed at the core of our being. Jean-Marie Ghislain overcame his fear..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations, maps. This book is the first complete pictorial atlas of the world's ray fauna and includes information on many species only recently discovered by scientists while undertaking research for the book. It includes all 26 families and 633 valid named..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Quarto, oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A contributing photographer to National Geographic, Thomas P. Peschak brings us as close as possible to sharks in the wild. Alongside the photographs, this book tells the compelling story of the natural history of sharks. Sharks have roamed..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. This book chronicles shark attacks both on Australia's fatal shores and overseas. It also records miraculous escapes - some so bizarre they defy belief, and some that display extraordinary courage in the face of extreme peril. Robert Reid interviews famous..... More