Best Snake Books

[Thamnophis]

That is indeed the nice side of a forum that is specialised in one genus or one species or so.
When I read them, I will let you know what I think of them.

[Cazador]

My next book will be Understanding reptile parasites: A basic manual for herpetoculturists & veterinarians by Roger Klingenberg. It's expected to arrive before December 6. Has anyone read this or other good snake books?

[Markus18]

the best book about gartersnakes i ever read is the book "strumpfbandnatter" from jürgen chlebowy and martin hallmen!they work with gartersnakes since many many years.all people that want to know about gartersnakes ask them because they have much experience!

[Cazador]

Be sure to vote in the poll on getting the book Strumpfbandnattern translated into English. It seems to be the best non-English garter snake book (and possibly the best one overall). New copies sell for the equivalent of $35 USD, but it hasn't been translated, yet. In comparison, The Garter Snakes by Rossman et al. is widely considered to be the best English book on garter snakes, and new copies sell for $64 USD.

The poll is in the "General Talk" forum under the "Strumpfbandnattern" thread. Cheers,
Rick

[abcat1993]

I think Petco sells a snake book with hundreds of pages for $100. Although that's a lot of snakes to cover with only a couple hundred pages.

[Thamnophis]

Originally Posted by Thamnophis

Do you know: Garter snakes & their allies by Coote?

The book of William Mara and the book of Coote I have ordered and they will arrive this week. I will let you know what I think of it.

I saw that Mara has written a lot of books about different snake-genera in the USA.
Maybe he´s not a specialist, but only a good phographer with only little knowledge about how to keep them.

The book from Mara has arrived ans I will start reading it today, I hope.
The other one, from Coote, has not arrived yet.

[Cazador]

I got my copy of Klingenberg's Understanding reptile parasites today. I've only read a few pages, but I wish I bought it a long time ago. It seems to be a very good book. Unfortunately, I decided to euthanize one of my snakes yesterday . It was in very poor health for quite a while, and was too sick to brumate. From what I've read so far, I think this book may have made a difference. I'll let you know if the rest of the book is as good as the first part.
Rick

[Thamnophis]

The book from Mara has beautiful pictures, but the text is not that interesting.
The other book, from Coote, did not arrive yet.

[Thamnophis]

I mailed the company that would send the book from Coote and they answered me that this book is sold out and will not be published again.

[Spiderqwan]

I have a copy of the Jon Coote book T-Rex Education Series, Garter Snakes, The ribbon snakes & water snakes thier captive husbandry & reproduction, my local store has copies of the book as well I'm assuming that this is the Coote book you are refering to, it was £4.95 English pounds if any would like me to get them a copy I'm sure we could work something out via paypal or money transfer i dont mind posting to people if they cant get a copy I dont think scaning it and uploading a PDF file would be a great idea as I'm sure it would be illegal let me know what you think its not a huge book only 46 pages.