Pictorial full colour illustrated covers & title page, preface, col. & b/w plts. & text ills., full page col. photographs, diags., maps, tables, appends., gloss., bibliog., index. This book is an insight into the biology and life history of snakes in and around Australia. It opens the door on an exciting and relatively new area of research. Dr Shine has pioneered much of this work himself and may be consider Australia’s foremost authority on snakes.p p. 224 #0515/0320