Ferraris Race Ahead with Their New Book
Need to find your way among butterflyfish galore? Lost in a maze of confusing groupers? Can’t make your scorpionfish out? Now your problems are solved!
FiNS Associate Editors, Andrea and Antonella Ferrari, have finally published their much awaited new book A DIVER’S GUIDE TO REEF LIFE, a formidable yet handy field guide for scuba divers and snorkellers worldwide featuring an incredible 1,200 tropical marine species from the Indo-Pacific to the Red Sea and the Caribbean.
Their new book — 480 beautifully illustrated pages in full colour — boasts more than 1,300 color photos, and as in their previous and wildly successful A DIVER’S GUIDE TO UNDERWATER MALAYSIA MACROLIFE, also by Nautilus Publishing. The book is complete with first-hand information on distribution, habitat, size, life habits for each species, running gamut from the most common or most easily encountered cartilagineous (sharks and rays) and bony fishes to hard and soft corals, invertebrates (from crusty crustaceans to soft molluscs such as squid, octopi and cuttlefish — including sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sea stars and nudibranchs), and even seafaring reptiles and mammals.
Besides being printed in a sturdy, traveller-friendly format and size — easy to consult after a dive or on a boat — A DIVER’S GUIDE TO REEF LIFE is hardbound with a reinforced stitched binding. Featuring not only full scientific and common names indexes and several in-depth, highly readable special features on marine species behaviour, but also a series of spectacular, incredibly colourful thematic photo galleries. To top it off, the new book is filled with easy-to-follow underwater phototips for starters and pros — a well-known Ferraris’ trademark.
A DIVER’S GUIDE TO REEF LIFE is certain to set a standard for marine life field guides everywhere and will soon be available on the FiNS online shop!
For the first independent enthusiastic reviews of A DIVER’S GUIDE TO REEF LIFE — which are just now starting to surface on the Net — please check out http://www.saltcorner.com/1024/index1024.htm or http://www.nhbs.com/title.php?tefno=144194.