Book Review: A Divers Guide to Reef Life

Peter Rowlands · Issue 32, Sep/Oct 2006 · pp. 46–47

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Book Review A Divers Guide to Reef Life by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari This 480 page 190 x 165cm book gives details of around 1200 tropical marine species from the Red Sea to the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. Each description includes Distribution, Size, Habitat and Life Habits to make it a very useful, if heavy, traveling companion. In addition there are underwater photography tips for each section of subjects making this an informative u/w photo guide as well. There have been many books covering such a wide range of subjects with factual details but I doubt if there has ever been any which have contained underwater photographs as good nor as consistent as Andrea and Antonella’s. They not only identify the subject visually but also seem to freeze them in time and preserve them for us without harming them. The printing quality does full justice to the photographs and completes a print…