SEA AND SHORE DANGERS

THEIR RECOGNITION, AVOIDANCE AND TREATMENT

By Margaret M. Smith

Covers rubbed as usual but internally clean. A good-plus paperback.

From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate tipped in.

ND (c. 1977) 1st edition. 8vo side-stapled paperback (145 x 217mm). Ppiv,65,iii,x[plates],ii. Ten colour and b/w plates, b/w photographs and illustrations in the text, advertisements.

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Written by Margaret M. Smith "...with the help and advice of the staff and other friends of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown." A South African guide to the dangers of the sea and shore. Everything from shark attack and jellyfish sting to boating and angling accidents (it's always useful to know the best way to remove a barbed hook from your hand); bacterial and heavy metal contamination of sea food, sunburn, bathing, avoiding motor vehicles on the beach, surfing, drowning, the use of an aqualung, venomous fish, snakes and other marine animals - loads of good stuff. There are also brief notes on first aid.

The book carries no date of publication. After a quick flick through, the latest date that I can find in the text is 1965. In the acknowledgements, Smith comments that the book is based on knowledge garnered "...over the last 38 years."

Margaret Mary Smith, nee MacDonald, was the wife of J.L.B. Smith, the well-known South African ichthyologist. They married in 1937 and in 1938 they conducted a fish collection expedition along the South African coast. They worked together for many years and quickly became two of the leading ichthyologists in the world, still highly respected for their work today. Following J.L.B. Smith's death in 1968, the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology was established in his memory and to honour his lifetime achievements in ichthyology. His widow, Prof. Margaret Smith, was appointed the first director, with a staff of five. Margaret Smith embarked on a recruitment drive to attract ichthyologists and to train African ichthyologists. In 1977, the large, three-storey building, which was designed and constructed in Somerset Street to house the Institute, was officially opened.