FANTASTIC FISHES: A FEAST OF FISHY FACTS AND FABLES. By Dr Mark Everard.

2012 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 205mm). Pp304. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Anyone who has ever read Mark Everard's other titles will know that he has a fascination with the natural world and fish in particular. An aquatic biologist by training, and a fisherman by nature, he has combined science with history, together with a flourish of mythology, to produce a fascinating concoction of extraordinary and bizarre fishy information. From the biggest to the smallest, those that live deepest to those that live highest and ones that live in mud to those that climb trees - Mark provides a wealth of information that even the most experienced fishermen are unlikely to have come across. "Fantastic Fishes is a celebration of all that is amazing, astounding or just old-fashioned odd about the world's fishes. Dipping into this rich storehouse of amazing facts and fables about fishes may just help you look at fish with fresh eyes." (Mark Everard from the Introduction). Chapters include: Biggest and smallest; Life at the extremes; Fish and reproduction; Odd things that fish eat; Super senses; Close relationships; Invasions and introductions; Fish and human health; Economic uses; Culturally significant fishes; Other amazing things about fishes; In conclusion.