Describes and illustrates shells found in North America, including gastropods, chitons, and bivalves.

Describes and depicts eight hundred species of shells.

"Descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and 265 color photographs describe 252 species of mollusk shells as beachcombers are likely to find them"--P. [4] of cover.

Presents a pictorial guide to marine mollusks, providing descriptions for native varieties and important introduced species.

Illustrations and descriptive information on all living marine mollusks in the families Conidae and Conolithidae along with their taxonomic placement

In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.