The Secret Life of Clams: The Mysteries and Magic of Our Favorite Shellfish

(Hardback)

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It breaths with tubes, it has no head or brain, it feeds through a filter, and it is the source of dozens of familiar euphemisms ("Happy as a clam!"). Clams, it turns out, have been worshiped (by the Moche people of ancient Peru), used as money (by the Algonquin Indians), and consumed by people for thousands of years. Yet "The Secret Life of Clams"

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Anthony D. Fredericks grew up on the beaches of Southern California, where he spent his youth exploring tide pools, gathering clams, and snorkeling along the Pacific coast. He has been a professional educator for more than forty years and has taught at the elementary, secondary, and college levels. Fredericks is a prolific author, having authored nearly four hundred magazine and journal articles and published 141 books, including three college textbooks, eighty education books, and several adult trade books. He is also the award-winning author of more than forty childrens books in a variety of genres, primarily environmental science and natural history. He resides in Dover, Pennsylvania.