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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060194952
ISBN-139780060194956
eBay Product ID (ePID)1644832
Product Key Features
Book TitleFish Out of Time : the Search for the Coelacanth
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicAnimals / Fish, Animals / Marine Life, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ichthyology & Herpetology
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Science
AuthorSamantha Weinberg, Fourth Fourth Estate
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-044800
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal597.3/9
SynopsisJust before Christmas in 1938, the 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.
LC Classification NumberQL638.L26W45 2000
