Book, 'The Enthusiast's Guide' from the publisher, 'Les Editions du Piat'. Author, Julien Lebocey. Mineral collectors and those with a naturally curious mind can rest assured! They finally have a relevant and practical guide in their hands!

Book - Minerals – The Enthusiast's Guide

Publisher(s): Les editions du Piat

Author(s): Julien Lebocey

Summary: Mineral collectors and those who are naturally curious can rest assured! They now have in their hands a relevant and practical guide to identifying the different species that they are likely to discover for themselves in the field or admire in museums, at numerous fairs and exhibitions.

At a time when it is difficult to sort through so much data on the web, not always serious and, let's face it, sometimes very far from Science, here is a modern and rigorous book which offers much more than the works distributed until now in France, often too obsolete despite the progress of Mineralogy, or which are simple translations and adaptations of foreign works, without any real perspective on the riches of our beautiful country.

Avoiding the recycling of dusty data, Julien Lebocey, editor of the journal "Le Règne Minéral", has boldly compiled here information acquired during his journalistic work, with the team of this French mineralogy journal - created in 1995 - intended for the general public as well as researchers and geologists.

The result is a real update with a large quantity of unpublished data, accumulated over several decades and absent from current works which are lying dormant on the shelves of most stores.

This guide has more than 600 pages illustrated by the best specialists in the genre, or more than 2,000 images (!), and nearly 290 minerals are described with their main foreign deposits and paragraphs devoted to French localities.

This guide is now the reference in the field! The author here gives a real meaning to the principle of Collection, he even restores its letters of nobility, because without the Collection, the amateur as well as the scientist would not be able to discover a new species, make observations, conserve and transmit...

Weight: 2800 grs

Dimensions: 17.5 × 24.5 × 4.5 cm