Microscopia : Secrets of the Sea

This book takes you on a journey, from the rockpools along the shoreline, to the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, to reveal an incredible and rarely seen world. You will see the surprising beauty of fish gills when viewed under the microscope, the intricate patterns on a giant clam, and discover the tiny organisms that are the very building blocks of life. Some of them are harmless, some of them deadly.

Some are intruigingly alien in appearance, others are startling in their beauty. Without them, life as we know it would not exist. Welcome to the amazing hidden world under the sea.