Faber & Faber The Pebbles on the Beach

Great product

A beautiful little book. The fold out visual guide is clever. It’s been in my beach bag all summer.

I bought this book for my sister for her next birthday. I was a little disappointed. I was expecting it to have lots of pictures, and be a sort of pocket guide to take with you to the beach (she's a real beachcomber). It does have pictures on the fold out cover, which are very nice, but the rest of the book is just very wordy, so I'm not sure it was quite what I was expecting. Very interesting, I'm sure just not the pocket guide I'd wanted.

This book is an old book from the 50s reprinted with a colour 8 page cover. It is probably hard to beat, written by a geologist. Its divided nicely into chapters dealing with different aspects. He ecplains clearly in laymans terms how the pebbles/stones/sand came to be. The colour section added later is of little use, a colour photo section would have been better, but still worth reading.

Very thorough on the best locations and general techniques of identification. Unfortunately it was, for me ,information heavy and thin on inspiration or delight. A book I find easy to put down and hard to pick up. again Rather like a lecture I had to sit through once on crustaceans 'The prawn' ..one leg at a time and each individual joint on each leg detailed in full. I fell asleep and only woke when I banged my head on the desk as a result…….