Great White Sharks Preserved in European Museums - Couverture rigide

Maddalena, Alessandro De

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847181899 ISBN 13 : 9781847181893

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Author has condensed virtually everything that is known about the great white sharks that are preserved in European museums in this book. Available data of 105 great white sharks from 45 institutions is presented herein. Most material consists of taxidermied specimens and jaws. Most specimens with known capture locations come from the Mediterranean Sea. The majority of specimens are very old. The jaws belonging to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, dated from at least 1640-1660, are the oldest white shark material preserved in Europe. The largest specimens of which parts are preserved in any European museum may be those of which skeletal parts are preserved in the Museo di Anatomia Comparata of Rome, Italy, and the Museo Zoologico 'La Specola' of Florence, Italy. The cast of a 5.65 m female great white shark preserved in the Musée cantonal de Zoologie of Lausanne, is the world s largest that has been reconstructed directly from a whole specimen. The largest skin-mounted specimen is a 5.22 m female preserved in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Trieste. The 1.50 m female preserved in the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum of Frankfurt is the smallest taxidermied white shark preserved in Europe. The publication also includes a concise general account of white shark evolution, anatomy, physiology, reproduction, feeding, attacks on humans and fishery. Up-to-date literature references are included. Extensively researched, this encyclopedic account is enhanced by many photographs and drawings, that bring to life the extraordinary world of the great white shark. The ease of reading of the book and its thoroughness will make it a welcomed addition to any naturalist's library.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Annick Cossic is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Sociales Victor Segalen, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO, France) and has published on the Georgian city of Bath and on eighteenth-century satire. Patrick Galliou is Professor of English at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Sociales Victor Segalen, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) and is currently working on the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and his French translator, Augustin Hamon. His is also a practiced field archaeologist.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847181899
• ISBN 13: 9781847181893
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 135