Australian Seashores : A Guide for the Beach-lover, the Naturalist, the shore Fisherman and the student

xii, 372pp plus 96 plates and three colour plates. Colour frontispiece. Cloth-bound (very sightly rounded at corners) large format hardback with extensive figures and illustrations. Indexed. A classic text, published after the author's death, reflecting Dakin's life on the Australian sea shores. 1953 reprint of 1952 original, a fascinating snap shop of Australia's coast as it was in the middle of the 20th century. Chapters on tides, waves, the light of the sea, animal and plant life, worms and insects, sea squirts, lobsters, flotsam and jetsam and more.