Dear Avril, Dear Peter, Dear Conchlers,

In don't believe that there are land- and freshwater books at the golden
nature guide.
but a quite a useful work is the Cumpendium of landshells, but you couldn't
freshwater
species in it. The best way for finding books is the website of Mr. Groh,
Germany,
who has rich experiance in books and who is trading and selling worldwide.

His website-address is: www.conchbooks.de

He has worldwide conchbooks also in English and I think it is the best to
contact his
e-mail from this website.

with best shelling greetings

Helmut from Innsbruck


Helmut "Helix" Nisters
private:
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.netwing.at/nisters
office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at


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Avril,

I can suggest two possibilities.

Seashells of the World, a guide to the better known species by R. Tucker
Abbott ( a golden nature guide)  my copy is copyright 1962, there may be a
newer version(s). I could not find an ISBN #

Seashells of North America - A guide to field identification.  by R Tucker
Abbott (a golden field guide)  A revised edition was published in 1986. ISBN
0-307-13657-4

To find used copies of these I would suggest websites like www.
bibliofind.com which allows you to both search for the book you want and
also enter a request for a book and will notify you when one of their
booksellers has one for sale.  (I am still waiting for a 2nd edition of
American Seashells.  Some Dutch person who wakes up earlier then I do got
the last one.  :-)  )

Beth DeHaas
Whitefield, ME
(A dutch women who knows how to be patient (stubborn?)


-----Original Message-----
From: Avril Bourquin <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: [CONCH-L] Freshwater & Terrestrial Book


>Good morning Conchlers,
>
>I am trying to update my children's free loan library and I once again
>notice that I am totally lacking any books on land and fresh water
molluscs.
>Is there something like a "Golden Book" or some other good Beginner's
>introduction to this subject?
>
>Thanks in advance for all help from the list.
>
>Avril Bourquin
>P.O.Box 366
>Invermere, British Columbia
>Canada
>V0A 1K0
>
>Phone: (250) 342-7224
>EMail:  [log in to unmask]
>URL:  www.manandmollusc.net
>
>