Sea Shells Author:S. Peter Dance this is an illustrated guidebook to seashells. — each volume in the Knowledge Through Color Series has been thoroughly researched, carefully written in plain language and packed with hundreds of specially created full-color illustrations. in Sea Shells, particular attention is paid to those animals and shells which have been and are utilized by m... more »an in various ways, ranging from the purely ornamental to the furnishing of food and the weaving and dying of textiles. included are many rare and valuable specimens never covered before in popular books.« less