On deep blue or black glossy pages, superb photographs of 46 sharks loom from the depths with their beady eyes and sharp teeth, fins and gills. Some are easily recognisable like the Great Hammerhead or the Goblin shark with its pinkish white teeth, very long tail, rounded fins and large sword-like extended snout. It is harmless to humans. There are fact boxes and statistics giving common name, family, size at birth, maximum size and weight, maturity for males and females, reproduction, litter size where known, food eaten like fish and squid and maybe also crustaceans, top speed, teeth count and depth. There is a cookie-cutter shark, a Caribbean reef shark, and for each a diver is pictured in silhouette alongside a silhouette of the shark itself in this superb A-Z directory of 46 of the most astonishing marine creatures. Ages seven to adult, colour softback.

Take a deep dive with the Great Whites and chart the survival of a species with Michael Muller's call to arms in a book of breakthrough underwater photography. Dr Allison Kock writes about the sharks in this book as we take a look at a decade at sea and the expeditions, shark statistics, conservation resources, but best of all huge quality underwater photography in both striking black and white and colour marine blue. See the red mouths and jagged teeth exposed, the tiny fearsome eyes and the even tinier bodies of the skilful photographer-divers. A mother feeds her young in the cool blue shallow waters, striped fish circle a Great White, a Hammerhead grazes along the sand at the bottom of an ocean, sharks fight, feed and are cleaned, eye a big colourful catch or skim below the surface. With picture index from Guadalupe Island, to bull sharks in Beqa May 2011, a lemon shark in Grand Bahama Island November 2014, a black tip, blue sharks, mako, nurse sharks and tiger sharks, silky sharks and many great whites and with short descriptions of each. The furthest distance travelled by a tagged shark is 34,500 miles, and the years since sharks' bodies have evolved significantly is 140 million years and 440 million years since sharks first appeared. Apologies if the gatefold page is damaged at the fold in an otherwise mint condition, now very rare Taschen publication. A big and glamorous tribute, pages unnumbered, all in colour. 24cm x 33cm.
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