THE WORLD OF FISHES. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.

1968 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp128. B/w photograph plates, map, brief Vesey-Fitzgerald ...explains how fish are adapted to life in a strange world of unbelievable pressures; how they breathe and reproduce, grow and feed; how they find their way about, making migrations every bit as vast as those of birds. But he does not write for the specialist. Himself fascinated by fish from the day when, as a very small boy, he dragged a 'tiddler' from a Welsh stream, he takes his readers on an underwater journey, through a world teeming with fantastic forms of life". Chapters include: The world of water; The typical fish; The diversity of fishes; Some water problems; The senses of fishes; Feeding; Breeding; The distribution of fishes; The migrations of fishes.