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The annotated Old Fourlegs : the updated story of the coelacanth
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ISBN: 9781775844990 1775844994 9781775845003 1775845001 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cape Town Struik Nature

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"When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs - The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith's dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton's The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith's text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date" - Publisher's website.


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The fishy Smiths : a biography of JLB & Margaret Smith
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ISBN: 9781775846468 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa Penguin Books

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