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Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind / Richard Fortey.

Fortey, Richard A. (Author).
  • Description: xv, 332 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
  • ISBN: 9780307263612
  • ISBN: 0307263614

Available copies

  • 8 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

0 current holds with 8 total copies.

Library Location Call Number Status Due Date
Beverly Main Adult Nonfiction QL 434 .F67 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Danvers Adult Nonfiction QL 434 F67 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Gloucester Adult Nonfiction 595/Fortey (Text to phone) Available -
Marblehead Adult New Nonfiction NEW 595 FORTEY 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Melrose New Books (Browsing Room) 595 Fortey (Text to phone) Available -
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Swampscott Thomson Room 595 F (Text to phone) Available -

Summary: Former Natural History Museum (London) paleontologist Fortey gives us the stories of those plants, animals, and other creatures that have survived from Earth's early days--the planet's "true marathon runners."
Notes: "Originally published as Survivors in Great Britain by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London."

Search for related items by subject

Subject: Arthropoda > Conservation.
Invertebrates > Conservation.
Limulus polyphemus > Conservation.
Worms.
Plant conservation.

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