The New Encyclopedia of Snakes (Hardcover)

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Learn about snakes from around the world, the relationships between the species, snake biology–how and where they live, feed and reproduce–and how they interact with humans. This updated edition would make a great holiday gift for any young naturalist. Lexington Herald Leader The New Encyclopedia of Snakes is a must-have… Mattison’s work is a breathtaking wonder. How he managed to fill 271 pages with reams of scientific and plain entertaining information, then added 200 beautiful photographs that deal with every snake on this planet, is simply astonishing…It’s all there, our American snakes, the Asian, Australian, African and European snakes, their lives, mating habits, raising of young, feeding and potential threat to humans who bother them. You will be blown away by the color photography, but you also will begin to read and probably not stop for a long time. — Gene Muller Washington Times This revised and updated edition of The Encyclopedia of Snakes delivers three new snake families and 400 new species. [As] the most comprehensive of Mattison’s herpetology texts this edition covers all aspects of snake biology and habitat…The work contains a wealth of information about our scaled friends, including patterns of distribution and matters relating to evolution and morphology, feeding, reproduction, and defensive strategies…Full of some 200 marvelous color photographs, this captivating work will appeal to students and snake lovers everywhere. Scholarly enough to serve as a core resource for herpetologists but also readable, it deserves a wide audience.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (August 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 069113295X
• ISBN-13: 978-0691132952
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches

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Rewiews

Chris Mattison has done it again. What a wonderful book – both the photographs and writing. It is chock full of fascinating information about the world of snakes. It is a great general book – snakes overall – but also quite detailed about some specific species and interesting tidbits. It is updated from the first edition, with new photos, research, and classifications (e.g. Boidae and Pythonidae are now separate).

A must have for any snake afficionado!

By Melissa Kowalski “Avid reader”

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My fourth grade son checked this book out of his school library for most of last year. When library visits started this year, guess which book was the first one he brought home and showed me with excitement. I noted the ragged shape it is in (probably from having spent nearly 9 months in his backpack last year!), and realized I have to buy him his own copy. He’s a snake-lover, and has more snake books than many branch libraries, bu this is the one he reads over and over.

By Smilingbird

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