fish caught time search (103 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.49.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.92.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1999). 1999 1st paperback edition. Small 8vo (128 x 179mm). Ppxvi,239. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography. Good second-hand paperback. An interesting account of the discovery of the coelacanth in 1938 and the subsequent fourteen-year search for a complete specimen. Samantha Weinberg describes subsequent extensive research up to 1998, including the discovery of the Indonesian population of these fish, as well as observation of live specimens. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1999). 1999 1st edition. Small 8vo. Ppxvi,239. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Grey boards. Very good in dust-wrapper. An interesting account of the discovery of the coelacanth in 1938 and the subsequent fourteen-year search for a complete specimen. Samantha Weinberg describes subsequent extensive research up to 1998, including the discovery of the Indonesian population of these fish, as well as observation of live specimens. .

Paper covers. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Inscribed by the author. A fairly lively account of the discovery of a fish of ancient lineage. With a clever rhyme by Ogden Nash (fossil / apostle, snobs elite / obsolete) in the prelims. xi, (2), 241, (1) pp. Weight: 1.0 Language: English 1st paperback edition, originally published in 1999.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Quarter-bound in blue on burgundy boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; blue endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and maps. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; Book.

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1st Ed. XVI, 239 PP with 4 maps and 31 b/w illust. Eps: Bathymetric map of the Indian Ocean. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 18.5 x 13.3. The dramatic story of the discovery of a 400 million-year-old living fossil.

Condizione: Poor. No dustjacket. Light scratches/minor scuffs to cover. Foxing/some stains to textblock edges & pen marks on top edge. Large scuffed areas inside covers. Clippings from dustjacket stapled in at front. Sections cut from endpapers & title page. Text good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A Fish caught in Time. A clean and tightly bound book.

1999 1ST FINE /FINE.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. xx, 220 pages. Map. Illustrations. Appendix A and B. Selected Reading. Index. Decorative cover has slight wear and soiling. Samantha Weinberg is a British novelist, journalist and podcaster. Educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, she is the author of books such as A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth and the James Bond inspired trilogy The Moneypenny Diaries under the alias Kate Westbrook. Since 2019, she has been a contributor to Tortoise Media. In 2023, she wrote and narrated Trace of Doubt, an eight-part true crime podcast series for Audible. Just before Christmas in 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young woman curator of a small South African museum, spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up with only the skin and a few bones. A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, saw a thumbnail sketch of the fish and was thunderstruck. He recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a creature known from fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. With its extraordinary limbs, the coelacanth was believed to be the first fish to crawl from the sea and evolve into reptiles, mammals and eventually mankind. The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century." Smith devoted his life to the search for a complete specimen, a fourteen-year odyssey that culminated in a dramatic act of international piracy. As the fame of the coelacanth spread, so did rumors and obsessions. Nations fought over it, multimillion-dollar expeditions were launched, and submarines hand-built to find it. In 1998, the rumors and the truth came together in a gripping climax, which brought the coelacanth back into the international limelight. A Fish Caught in Time is the entrancing story of the most rare and precious fish in the world--our own great uncle forty million times removed. First Harper Perennial Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Photo- Illustrated & Map (illustratore). 1st Edition. Maroon paper-wrapped boards with blue cloth spine.Gold colored spine print and blind-stamped logo on front cover. Blue endpapers. Only defect is black (remainder) marker on head edge. otherwise, tight, sound and unmarked. 220 pages including index. Dust jacket is price-clipped. In mylar.