Publisher's Synopsis
This guide to Australia's varied seashores deals firstly with the shaping of the coastline, the tides and the sea, and then with the various forms of life to be found there - from seaweeds and algae to the shells, crabs, prawns, anemones, starfish and other creatures to be found along the seashore. Other titles in the "Collins Eyewitness Handbook" series includes "Shells", "Rocks and Minerals", "Butterflies and Moths", "Fossils" and "World Trees".