Spirals in time : the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells
Publication Information
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Physical Description
304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Contents
- Meet the shell-makers
- How to build a shell
- Sex, death and gems
- Shell food
- A mollusc called home
- Spinning shell stories
- Flight of the Argonauts
- Hunting for treasures
- Bright ideas
- The sea butterfly effect
- Epilogue
- A note on shell-collecting
- Glossary: a word in your shell-like