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Beschreibung
Shells are exoskeletons of living creatures and have fascinated humans for millennia – they have been collected and treasured for their beauty, used in religious rituals, and even traded as currency.

Interesting Shells presents striking portraits of specimens from the Museum’s shell collections, one of the largest resources of its kind in the world. Each portrait includes a caption which reveals the most interesting biological, historical and geographic details.
Shells are exoskeletons of living creatures and have fascinated humans for millennia – they have been collected and treasured for their beauty, used in religious rituals, and even traded as currency.

Interesting Shells presents striking portraits of specimens from the Museum’s shell collections, one of the largest resources of its kind in the world. Each portrait includes a caption which reveals the most interesting biological, historical and geographic details.
Über den Autor
Andreia Salvador is senior curator of Marine Mollusca, at the Natural History Museum, London. She is responsible for the curation of the Museum’s marine gastropods collections, which is one of the largest resources of its kind in the world. Her research interests also include the history of collecting, voyages and expeditions in malacology, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Zoologie
Genre: Biologie, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780565095109
ISBN-10: 0565095102
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Salvador, Andreia
Hersteller: The Natural History Museum
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 181 x 155 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Andreia Salvador
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,66 kg
Artikel-ID: 120332834