Introduction to Seashore Life of the San Francisco Bay Region and the Coast of Northern California

Very good used paperback. Sun faded spine and covers, rubbed.

California Natural History Guides series. First edition, 1962. By Joel W. Hedgpeth with illustrations by the author and Lynn Rudy.

The seashore is one of the most interesting of all natural regions both to the casual visitor and professional naturalist. This is not only because of the great variety and abundance of creatures that live in the sea, and the difference of this life from what we know on land, but also because of the changes that may occur with each change of tide.

Always there is something just a little different along the beach with each change of the tide, and few people walk there without the hope that something strange and wonderful has been freshly cast up by the sea.

In the Bay region we are fortunate in having a wide variety of shore habitats, many of them rich in seashore life, attracting students from all parts of the world to come and study some aspect or another of this varied life.