This is the definitive guidebook to the Mediterranean for biologists as well as for nature lovers. Well-written and easy-to-understand.

Riedl systematically describes the breathtaking flora and fauna of the region. This book owes its great success to the arrangement of the immense field of subjects acccording to relative groups.

Riedl discusses over 2,000 species with more than 30,000 features and depicts them in approximately 3,600 photographs. The name-list boasts a total of approximately 8,750 topics. "The Riedl" has proved its worth in all areas of the Mediterranean - for the student as well as the researcher or the educated layman. It is also a limitless source of knowledge for those fond of aquariums, for collectors, and divers.

About the author:

University Professor Dr Rupert Riedl, 1925 – 2005. Read Biology at university and in 1968 took up the post of Professor of Zoologyat the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA where he was bestowed with the institution's most prestigious title of "Kenan Professor of Zoology".

He returned to Vienna in 1971 and became Head of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Vienna in 1973.

After retiring from his academic post he founded the Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolutionary and Cognitive Research and in 2002 established the "Club of Vienna".

Prior publications include: "Die Ordnung des Lebendigen" (The Order of Life) 1975, "Biologie der Erkenntnis" (The Biology of Knowledge) 1980, "Ursachen des Wachstums" (Reeasons for Growth) 1996.

Rupert Riedl has gained a wide audience through his television documentary series, "Poseidon's Garden".

Previous books by Riedl published by Seifert Verlag: Clarissa and the Blue Camel – Time Travel on the Edge of Europe (2003), A Scientist's World View (2004), "Neugierde und Staunen (Curiosity and Amazement) (2004), and The Collapse of Morphology (2005).