2004 first edition.

"With nearly 500 pages and over 300 diagrams and illustrations, this definitive guide from one of New Zealand's most respected scientists, Professor John Morton, is the culmination of a life's work. Professor Morton and Dr Bruce Hayward (scientific editor) have documented and described in detail New Zealand's sea shore, and extended this commentary to cover major coastal environments in the Pacific including East Australia, Pacific Asia and Pacific America. This book is destined to become a classic of New Zealand science and to be taken up as a vital text for all undergraduate study in this subject."

286 x 213 mm, 496 pages, over colour 300 photographs and illustrations, hardback with jacket. As new copy