 | For Europeans, the Red Sea is their local tropical sea and it is served by numerous airline companies which allow them to reach the shores in only a few hours flight from all the most important European cities. The political stability of the northern regions has allowed considerable development of coastal settlement and the two villages of Sharm-elSheikh and Hurghada have become real little towns which offer all that a tourist may desire |  |
| in order to enjoy a pleasant and relaxed holiday without having to forego the comforts offered by more famous international tourist destinations. The sea itself has much to offer. warm clean water and an explosion of life and colour right from depths of a few metres. Mask, snorkel and a pair |  | of fins suffice in order to enjoy the incredible teeming life in this sea, whilst an underwater diving certification which can be obtained on the spot in a few days unlocks the door to all that lives in greater depths. The sight of such |
 | a profusion of life stimulates the curiousity and makes one wish to increase one’s knowledge and understanding of the behaviour and habits of all the strange inhabitants of this underwater Eden whether fish, crustaceans, turtles, shells or dolphins |  |
| This book intends to satisfy this desire, providing the enthusiast with a practical guide to Red Sea fauna and allowing him to identify the more common species. To facilitate this recognition, every species is illustrated with one or more photographs, all taken underwater of living subjects, |  | and these are accompanied by a simple but scientifically correct text which describes the particular characteristics of each group. Each photograph is provided with the Latin name of the species which, though it may seem unnecessarily complicated, is actually the only official language ofscience. |
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