About the product:

📚 Name/Type: Book - Minerals – The Guide for Enthusiasts

🙌 Author/Publisher: Julien Lebocey at Les editions du Piat

🌍 Origin: France

📝 Language: French

📐 Dimensions: 17.5 × 24.5 × 4.5 centimeters

⚖️ Weight: 2800 grams

📦 Packaging: Individually - Wrapped in paper

🎁 Perfect for giving as a gift or treating yourself!

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Summary:

Mineral collectors and nature enthusiasts can rest assured! They finally hold in their hands a relevant and practical guide to identifying the various species they are likely to discover in the field or admire in museums, numerous fairs and exhibitions.

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is a modern and rigorous book that offers much more than the books distributed so far in France, which are often too outdated despite the progress of Mineralogy, or which are simple translations and adaptations of foreign books, without any real perspective on the riches of our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

Avoiding the recycling of outdated data, Julien Lebocey, an editor for the magazine "Le Règne Minéral," has boldly compiled here information acquired during his journalistic work with the team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

The result is a real update with a large amount of new data, accumulated over several decades and absent from current books that are gathering dust on the shelves of most stores.

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

This guide is now the definitive reference on the subject! The author restores the true meaning to the principle of collecting, even restoring its prestige, because without collecting, both amateurs and scientists could not discover new species, make observations, conserve and transmit knowledge...