The Conch Book by Dee Carstarphen
This wonderful book is chock-full of history and tales about the Queen Conch as well as recipes from around the Bahamas and other parts of the Caribbean.
-- 76pp. 9 x 6 softcover (Second Edition, 2000);
ISBN: 0960754458 - $11.95

Those interested in the sea, natural history, conservation, conchology, or culinary arts, will find The Conch Book a delightful read.

Every hand-lettered page is enriched with lively and detailed pen-and-ink drawings.

Illustrated are the conch's anatomy, the technique of cleaning it for cooking, dozens of marine creatures whose lives mesh with the conch's, conch "tools" used by pre-Columbian Indians - even how to make and use a conch horn!