When I was a fish : tales of an ichthyologist
- Title
- When I was a fish : tales of an ichthyologist / Mike Bruton.
- Published by
- Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2015.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- Becoming a fish -- Life as a Rhodian -- In the land of amaThonga -- Being a fish -- My family and other animals -- Magic of museums -- Imagining Ichthy -- Priests and vices -- Freckled anglers, Harry hotlips and Greenwood's happy -- Travels and travails -- Where the Shekawe? -- Adventures in the islands of the moon -- Finding old fourlegs -- Where have all the coelacanths gone? -- We all live in a yellow submarine -- Brainstorming with the balons -- Generalists and specialists -- Yin and yang of fishes -- Through the looking glass -- Saving Gombessa -- Why fishes don't have necks -- Why extinction is good (and bad) -- Spawning ideas.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.