Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. HARDBACK.

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Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. HARDBACK.Ray Forster & Lyn Forster. A definitive work on the anatomy, physiology, behaviour and ecology of a major proportion of New Zealand spiders. It includes both native and introduced spiders and discusses how they relate to those in other parts of Australasia, South America and Southern Africa as spiders colonised the Earth before Gondwana began drifting apart. Superb line drawings and fine colour photographs. First published in paperback in 1999. A

With slipcase

in an alphabetical listing by genus

Clarence King

illustrated with photographs

A most interesting book

Emphasis throughout is on cultural requirements and practices and there are specific instructions on many genera

New Zealand content

maintenance

It describes over sixty different kinds and contains much fascinating information about the history of these plants as well as advice about culture

Sir William Hooker and Sir Joseph Hooker

There are chapters on the rock tors and the shists

but a very few survived in the one lifeboat that remained afloat