By P. Naylor
2nd Ed. 2005
While designed to aid identification of the common animals of British Seas, this book also incorporates as much material as possible showing how the animals go about their lives. There is information on how they feed, breed, avoid becoming someone else's food, and interact with other species in different ways.
Sponges,Cnidarians (Sea anemones, Corals, Hydroids, and Jellyfish)
Worms, Crustaceans (Crabs, Lobsters, Prawns, Shrimps and Barnacles), Molluscs (Chitons, Sea Snails, Sea Slugs, Bivalves, Cuttlefish, Octopus and Squid)
Bryozoans, Echinoderms (Starfish, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers, and Leather Stars)
Sea Squirts Fish.

272pp 425 colour photos 7 illus. Pb

By M. Snyderman, C. Wiseman

Wide range of background information on marine life around the Caribbean, Bahamas and Florida, including behavioural patterns, emerging scientific discoveries, environmental issues, special features and so on. In addition to fantastic photographs, the book is punctuated with tips on how to achieve great results with your own camera

Observer's Guide.
By C. Wood

This guide is aimed at divers looking for a good all round introduction to the animals and plants that they will encounter. Concise information on identification, habitat, size, distribution and depth range of over 200 species.

By P. Constant

A handy size for the traveller providing photographic illustrations and detailed biological descriptions of the teaming marine life around the Galapagos Islands. Additional information on the marine reserve and its management, geology, oceanography and dive sites. A series of sketch maps usefully illustrates the dive locations for visiting divers.

Pb 308pp 150x210mm

By P. Auerbach
3rd Ed.

An excellent guide on the range of injuries that can arise from contact with marine creatures and how to treat them.

Designed to provide the essential information for applying first aid to injuries and recognising the requirement professional medical assistance. Well illustrated with colour photographs to assist in recognising the hazards and the consequent injuries that may occur

Pb. spiral bound. 68pp 166mmX204mm

Coffee table book full of great photographs of ocean life.

By R. Stone

Visiting locations including the Caribbean, Pacific, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, this book is a vibrantly illustrated feast of fish, coral and the wealth of exotic animal and plant life to be found in the depths of the world’s oceans. A number of subjects that have never been recorded before are featured.

312p 317x270mm 518 photos Hb.

By P. Horsman

We might call our plant Earth but over 70 percent of 'Earth' is under water, water that teems with life. This superb exploration of the oceans describes the marine wildlife that inhabits our planet, from the coldest water of the ice-bound Poles to the warmest tropical seas. The expoertly written text is combined with stunning pictures of ocean dwellers from jellyfish to blue whales.

160p 320x245mm 180 colour photos Hb

By R. Gibson, B. Hextall, A. Rogers

photographic field guide to the animals and plants that can be found on the shores and in the seas of Britain and Northwest Europe. It is aimed at those who wish to find and identify organisms encountered on and offshore quickly and easily while promoting their conservation.
photographic field guide to the animals and plants that can be found on the shores and in the seas of Britain and Northwest Europe. It is aimed at those who wish to find and identify organisms encountered on and offshore quickly and easily while promoting their conservation.

Pb. 436pp 140mmX220mm

A beautifully illustrated companion guide identifying and describing the marine life that the diver can expect to encounter in the Red Sea. The information and pictures have been expertly assembled to be easily navigated, to give maximum utility to the diver and to be pleasing to the eye through stunning underwater photographs.

It includes the separate Complete Coral Reef Guide, a fold out water resistant card with over 250 species illustrated for quick identification.

Pb 196pp 180x250mm

By Waller/Dando/Burchett

A comprehensive yet compact reference book that will help you identify all the flora and fauna that you will come across at sea, on the beach or in the skies above.

Fully illustrated. Hb 500p

265 b/w maps

By S. Parker

Produced in association with the Natural History Museum, London, and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Seashore is an exceptionally beautiful and informative visual guide to the creatures living on the seashore.

Photographs of crabs, lobsters, rock pools, fish, seals, seabirds and more. See a starfish on the move; how a sea-urchin disguises itself; a sea-anemone catch a prawn; the inhabitants of a rock pool; fish that change colour
Learn how a limpet grips the rock, how a crab grows a new leg; how a prawn becomes invisible; how seabirds catch fish; how a sea otter sleeps at sea
Discover how long seaweed can grow; why hermit crabs live in second-hand shells; which shells bore holes in solid rock; where a puffin lays its eggs.

280x216mm Hb

A comprehensive and convenient pocket guide to the seashore and inshore marine life. covers the seashore of the Atlantic, Mediterranean, North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel coasts of Britain and Europe

- describes and illustrates 1500 common species of plant and animal that are found on the seashore from the highest spring tide to 5m below sea level plus inshore and pelagic fishes .

Pb. 115x190mm 352pp

By K. Davey
300 colour photos

By R. Irving

This Guide, which was produced as a part of the Seasearch project in Sussex, will help divers to identify over 190 species of plants and animals that they may encounter whilst diving not only in Sussex but anywhere along the English Channel coast. It features over 350 colour photographs, the majority of which were taken by divers in Sussex waters. Descriptions of each species are set out in an easy to follow format, with notes on how to distinguish similar species.

by K. Amsler

This fully illustrated volume is a wonderful guide to the underwater abundance of Caribbean marine life, a submerged world that is a paradise of nature that dazzles the imagination. It takes the reader on a voyage among brilliant hued creatures - angelfish, sharks, manatees, sea fans, coral reefs and more.

Hb 260x340mm 160pp

By T. Peschak

Wild Seas Secret Shores is an underwater journey around the African coast covering all major marine habitats from kelp forests to coral reefs, featuring a wide range of marine species from iconic apex predators such as great white and tiger sharks to many creatures of lesser physical and celebrity stature such as jellyfish and sea otters. The photographs are carefully chosen to convey a unique story or facet of the marine life in this region. The author is passionate about marine conservation and thus seeks not only to inform and enthral us through his work but additionally to make this a resounding personal statement.

Hb. 184pp 135 colour photos. 265mmx225mm