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Title: Biology of the Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
ISBN: 0801887240
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Publicate Date: 2008-03-14
Publish: 2008-03-14
List Price: $75.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Great contents, terrible format and construct
The contents of "Biology of the Snapping Turtle" are worth the amount learning about snapping turtles, Chelydra serpentina, is worth to you. Some of the world's most capable professionals concerning this species comprise the impressive author list. Most future papers on snappers will need to cite a chapter or three from this text somewhere along the way.
This book has been slated for publication by multiple publishers, and has been put off and canceled time and again. You would think that after the better part of a decade things would be nice and shiny, but this is not so. The book is a little large for its contents' layout, which is essentially that of journal papers. There are no plates or color photos, and the few black and white photos in line with the text are printed on such cheap paper that they pale in comparison to many generic black and white photos in turtle books published over half a century ago.
This book's construct is, simply put, very cheap and very crude. It's a lousy book with very great, important information. If the contents had been published in journals, the book would contain about $15-25 worth of reprints, if that puts into perspective what the boards and dust jacket from a university press are worth. It is too bad Johns Hopkins didn't exercise more integrity for THE book on such an incredible, underappreciated, and now better-covered animal.
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