The surprisingly exciting account of the search for the Coelacanth from an oddity caught, but unable to be preserved, in South Africa's 1938Christmas heat wave, to the discovery of living colonies of this strange creature. Along the way treasure hunters and publicity seekers compete with marine biologists to track it down - and exploiting its rarity brings extinction even closer.
(Serena Fenwick - bwl 9 June 2001 ) |
