Fish Out of Time : The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg and Fourth

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ISBN
9780060194956
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060194952
ISBN-13
9780060194956
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1644832

Product Key Features

Book Title
Fish Out of Time : the Search for the Coelacanth
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Animals / Fish, Animals / Marine Life, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ichthyology & Herpetology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Author
Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Fourth Estate
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-044800
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
597.3/9
Synopsis
Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up with only the skin and a few bones. A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, saw a thumbnail sketch of the fish and was thunderstruck. He recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a creature known from fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. With its extraordinary limbs, the coelacanth was believed to be the first fish to crawl from the sea and evolve into reptiles, mammals and eventually mankind. The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century." Smith devoted his life to the search for a complete specimen, a fourteen-year odyssey that culminated in a dramatic act of international piracy. As the fame of the coelacanth spread, so did rumors and obsessions. Nations fought over it, multimillion-dollar expeditions were launched, and submarines hand-built to find it. In 1998, the rumors and the truth came together in a gripping climax, which brought the coelacanth back into the international limelight. A Fish Caught in Time is the entrancing story of the most rare and precious fish in the world--our own great uncle forty million times removed.
LC Classification Number
QL638.L26W45 2000

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