Seashells | 
 enlarge | Authors: Josie Iselin, Sandy Carlson
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 32672
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 7.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0810993279
Dewey Decimal Number: 594.14770222
EAN: 9780810993273
ASIN: 0810993279
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Product Description
Artist Josie Iselin celebrates the diversity and beauty of nature with her exquisite portraits of seashells. Like her extremely popular Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods, Seashells is not a field guide but an artful and informative portrayal of a beloved part of our natural world. The book balances the exotic with the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. In her introduction and captions, marine geologist and paleontologist Sandy Carlson introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do. Both an art book and a contemplation of nature, Seashells combines aesthetic delight in natural things with scientific fact and philosophical wonder.
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 seashells May 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a lovely, straight forward book on seashells that can be enjoyed by all ages. The photography is wonderful.
Nature's art May 5, 2008
Who doesn't like a day at the beach collecting seashells. Only nature can create such beauty. This book would go great with "Beach Lover's Guide to the Perfect Sandwich" This book contains great sandwiches to eat at the beach and at beach parties. You can use the shells you collect to decorate your table of sandwiches.
Seashells March 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great photography and interesting text that is easy to read. Anyone who loves seashells will love this book. I'm so glad I got it. Well worth the price.
Delightful book February 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I needed to find a well-illustrated book on Seashells for an overseas friend. I know nothing about seashells, so I was a bit apprehensive how my first purchase with Amazon would turn out.
I need not have worried. The book was delivered within 48 hours and I was able to read it myself, before it went to Thailand with me. I was delighted with the book.
The recipient, a government Marine Biologist was thrilled.
I thoroughly recommend this book to anybody and everybody.
Stunning Photographs of Shells July 15, 2007
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
I was recently on vacation at a seacoast resort and every bookstore and gift shop in the area had a small book, almost a mini coffee table book, entitled SEASHELLS. The book contains both photographs and text regarding shells. Customers picked up the book, leafed through the pages and were amazed. The amazement was a reaction to the stunning photography of Jodie Iselin. The shells are arranged in a variety of settings from natural to artful and we see the grandeur and beauty of these objects that we often take for granted. The text is somewhat perfunctory, explaining the type of shell and where it can be found, but it serves more as an aid to the photographs rather than giving specific scientific information about the shells.
It's a perfect gift for anyone who loves shells, and judging from what appeared to be brisk sales, many people purchased it either as a gift for someone else or themselves, but when I purchased it, it was not as a gift. I am an amateur photographer, and I love photographing shells. It's not as easy as it looks. The shells often have rich textures which makes can make them difficult to photograph, or at least difficult to get sharp photos. For me, the book is more inspiration than anything else and while it may be a long time if ever that my photos will be even close to those in the book, it gives me something to work toward and ideas of how to arrange shells, and I'm sure come Christmas, I'll find it will be a gift idea too.
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