Seaweeds of the World

“A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year”“This book is beautiful.”—Charles Bergquist, Science Friday“All the major seaweed families and genera are covered in exquisite detail, beautifully complemented by stunning photographs and bold layouts which draw your eye to the page… . Whether you’re a hardened phycologist or just interested in finding out more about the delicate fronds that waft around your ankles in the shallows, this is definitely a user-friendly guide. Highly recommended.”—Rose Fulton, Green Fuse“This concise and lavish volume is almost as good as a trip to the shore.”—S. T. Meiers, Choice“This concise and lavish volume is almost as good as a trip to the shore.” * Choice *“I was wowed by [this book’s] design, the quality of the printing, the abundance of superb colour photographs, and the clarity of many of the diagrams.”—Francis Bunker

John H. Bothwell is a phycologist in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University. He has studied seaweeds in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Indian oceans for more than twenty years, and his group published both the first description of a brown seaweed sex chromosome and the first genome sequence of a green seaweed.