GraemeVW
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Picked this lot up for £10 today, looks to be some nice books in here, along with a load of 1970s aquarist magazines!
Observers Book of Pond Life by John Clegg is a good book. For a book aimed at kids it has a pretty good identification key. It got me interested in all things aquatic.Picked this lot up for £10 today, looks to be some nice books in here, along with a load of 1970s aquarist magazines!
I don't know, but "How be you bud?" is an English (west country) greeting to a friend.For god sake who put that book at the bottom!?
Nice haul, I have some of those too. The Complete Aquarium Encyclopedia was my aquarium bible growing up and is referenced in A Brief and Incomplete History of Aquascaping. A great book and still very relevant.Picked this lot up for £10 today, looks to be some nice books in here, along with a load of 1970s aquarist magazines!View attachment 197457
Now that's a bargin. Cheap as chips 😀Picked this lot up for £10 today,
Haha, had a copy of "Closet Cultivator" in the 90's, one of ED'S earlier books.For god sake who put that book at the bottom!?
For god sake who put that book at the bottom!?
That's a brilliant book had one years ago. Think l also had the British Wild life one as well.Observers Book of Pond Life by John Clegg is a good book. For a book aimed at kids it has a pretty good identification key. It got me interested in all things aquatic.
So on a related note I'm interested to see what people think of as their most valuable fish keeping book. If you had to buy one book to give as a gift to a new fishkeeper what would you choose? Would it be something practical or something inspiring or both?
The living aquarium is the first aquarium book I remember getting, and I’ve never let it go.These are my go to books. The last one ‘The Living Aquarium’ was published in 1979 and was my go to for many years. It’s still great for the basic ecology of aquariums and the nitrogen cycle etc. The Aquarium Atlas is published in 5 volumes and is very comprehensive.
It's got to have some good content though, be interesting to get your review either way John 👍Will reserve judgement on the book until I've read it.
Very nice find Tim and definitely a book I'd like to add to the collection one day.Finally managed to get my hands on a copy of this. It's as rare as hens teeth these days....
18 pages in and enjoying it so far, will report back with honest review once finished.It's got to have some good content though, be interesting to get your review either way John 👍
18 pages in and enjoying it so far, will report back with honest review once finished.
Thanks for the write up John 👍Well finished the book and here's my review.