If as an ophidiaphobe, you can’t even bear to put your hand on a picture of
a snake, steer clear of Chris Mattison’s book. The photographs in The
Encylopedia of Snakes are alarmingly realistic, and the text gripping. Now in
paperback, published by Blandford, £16.99. ISBN 0713727576.
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