"A Must have Book!"

[Pearlgully]

The Pearl-Professor posted this today:

"The Pearl Oyster by Southgate and Lucas
A must have book!

The Pearl Oyster is a remarkable book published in 2008 by Elsevier. Publishing authors are Paul Southgate and John Lucas. However, other authors contributed to the information-rich 16 chapters (574 pages)."

I just ordered my copy.


Gail

 

[laurenb]

Thanks for posting about the Pearl Professor story, his updates seem to come so slowly of late... don't know what to do with myself when I'm procrastinating and I'm caught up on PG. When I stumbled on it at Google Books a few months ago, I knew it was on my must have list!

 

[jerin]

I have this book and it is very interesting in a scientific way, i.e. the reading is rather dray and heavy but you can learn a lot.

Another book I would recommend just for the pleasure of reading is "A geography of Oysters". Even though I do not eat oysters (so far), it has made me very curious about tasting them and it is much fun to see certain facts to be the same as for pearl oysters when it comes to collect the spat, watching out for the right type of seabed and so on. Caitlin mentioned it before and I have to say it is worth the money! If there are lovers of oysters, this book is about north American oysters, it takes up every aspect of growing oysters, names and how they got them, with what type of oyster you should start if you are to taste them the very first time, how to open them without cutting off your fingers, recipes, locations and many more interesting things as well as photos.

Author: Rowan Jacobsen
Paperback ISBN-10: 59691-548-X (published in 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-548-0
Publisher: Bloomsbury

I have given both ISN-numbers, for hardcover versions there are different ISN-numbers. I bought my copy through Amazon.com and the price was
ca. 21.00 USD.

 

[jshepherd]

I purchased the book as soon as it came out, but after flipping through it decided that it was one of those "vacation reads". A lot of it reads like a university science textbook.

 

[jerin]

Well, all of us need vacation reads one time or another, don?t you think?

 

[GemGeek]

You saw it here first: https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/pearl-books-resources/3464-pearl-oyster-2008-a.html I agree - it's great.

I gave a copy to the library at GIA Carlsbad because it's a must-have pearl reference book.