General

Arsen'ev VA (1986) - "Atlas of marine mammals". TFH Publications, Ascot, Berks. 269pp ISBN:0-8766-6810-4

Bonner N (1994) - "Seals and sea lions of the world". Blandford Press, London. 224pp ISBN:0-7137-2377-7

Bonner WN (1982) - "Seals and man: a study of interactions". University of Washington Press, Seattle & London. 170pp ISBN:0-2959-5890-1

Bonner WN (1989) - "The natural history of seals". Christopher Helm, London. 196pp ISBN:0-7470-0203-7 + Facts on File, NY 196pp [1990]

Cleave A (1996) - "Seals & sea lions: a portrait of the animal world". Universal International Pty Ltd, Gordon, NSW, Australia. 72pp ISBN:1-8761-4210-3

Godwin S (1990) - "Seals: a complete photographic survey". Headline Books, London. 128pp ISBN:0-7472-0176-5

Gordon Clark J (ed) (1982) - "Mammals in the seas, Volume IV: small cetaceans, seals, sirenians and otters". FAO Fisheries Series 5(4). 541pp ISBN:9-2510-0514-1

Grace, Bruemmer F (1993) - "Seals". Key Porter Books, Canada (Natural History Series). ISBN:1-5501-3298-9

Harrison RJ, King JE (1980) - "Marine mammals" (2nd Edition). Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London. 192pp

Jefferson TA, Leatherwood S, Webber MA (1993) - "Marine mammals of the world: FAO species identification guide". U.N. Food & Agriculture Organisation. 320pp ISBN: 9-2510-3292-0

King JE (1983) - "Seals of the world" (2nd Edition). British Museum (Natural History) Publication 868 240pp ISBN:0-5650-0868-4 + Oxford University Press 240pp ISBN:0-1985-8513-6 1983 + Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 240pp

Leon V (1988) - "Seals and sea lions: an affectionate portrait". Blake Publishing, USA 40pp ISBN:0-9183-0315-X + Silver Burdett Press, Parsippany, NJ ISBN:0-3822-4889-9 (lsb) ISBN:0-3822-4890-2 (sc) [1995]

Reeves RR, Stewart BS, Leatherwood S (1992) - "The Sierra Club handbook of seals and sirenians". Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 359pp ISBN:0-8715-6656-7

Reijnders P, Brasseur S, van der Toorn J, van der Wolf P, Boyd I, Harwood J, Lavigne D, Lowry L (eds) (1993) - "Seals, fur seals, sea lions and walrus: status survey and conservation action plan". IUCN/SSC Seal Specialist Group. 88pp ISBN:2-8317-0141-4

Ridgway SH, Harrison RJ (eds) (1981) - "Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 1: The walrus, sea lions, fur seals and sea otter". Academic Press, London & San Diego. 250pp ISBN:0-1258-8501-6 [also 2nd printing in 1993 - 259pp including extra notes]

Ridgway SH, Harrison RJ (eds) (1981) - "Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 2: Seals". Academic Press, London & San Diego. 380pp ISBN:0-1258-8502-4

Riedman ML (1990) - "The pinnipeds: seals, sea lions and walruses". University of California Press, Berkeley, LA & Oxford. 476pp ISBN:0-5200-6497-6

Stone D (1995) - "Seals". IUCN Species Survival Commission. 32pp ISBN:2-8317-0049-3

Particular Species

Anderson S (1988) - "The grey seal". Shire Publications, Princes Risborough (Shire Natural History Series). 24pp ISBN:0-8526-3947-3

Bruemmer F, Davies B (1988) - "Seasons of the seal: a tribute to the ice lovers" [A year in the life of a female harp seal]. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 160pp ISBN:0-7475-0214-5 + [Bruemmer only] Northwood Press, Minocqua, Wisconsin 162pp

Ching P (1994) - "The Hawaiian monk seal". University of Hawaii Press. ISBN:0-8248-1622-6

Kooyman GL (1981) - "Weddell seal: consummate diver". Cambridge University Press, NY. 145pp

Lavigne DM, Kovacs KM (1988) - "Harps and hoods: ice-breeding seals of the Northwest Atlantic". University of Waterloo Press, Waterloo, Ontario. 192pp ISBN 0-8889-8081-7

Marchessaux D (1989) - "The biology, status and conservation of the monk seal (Monachus monachus)". Council of Europe, Strasbourg (Nature and Environment Series 41). 46pp ISBN:9-2871-1662-8 [English] + 44pp ISBN:9-2781-1661-X [French]

Reijnders PJH, de Visscher MN, Ries EH (eds) (1988) - "The Mediterranean monk seal". Pergamon Press / IUCN (UNEP Technical Series 1). 59pp

Thomas P (1990) - "Fur seal island: an environment in peril" [Northern fur seals on the Pribilof Islands]. Souvenir Press. 126pp ISBN:0-2856-2969-7

Thompson P (1989) - "The common seal" [Harbour seal]. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough (Shire Natural History Series). 24pp ISBN:0-7478-0017-0

American Society of Mammalogy - Mammalian Species publications -

• 6 - "Leptonychotes weddelli" [Weddell seal]. Stirling I (1971) 5pp
• 64 - "Arctocephalus galapagoensis" [Galápagos fur seal]. Clark TW (1975) 2pp
• 188 - "Phoca sibirica" [Baikal seal]. Thomas J, Pastukhov V, Elsner R, Petrov E (1982) 6pp
• 238 - "Odobenus rosmarus" [Walrus]. Fay FH (1985) 7pp
• 258 - "Cystophora cristata" [Hooded seal]. Kovacs KM, Lavigne DM (1986) 9pp
• 283 - "Eumetopias jubatus" [Steller sea lion]. Loughlin TR, Perez MA, Merrick RL (1987) 7pp
• 391 - "Mirounga leonina" [Southern elephant seal]. Ling JK, Bryden MM (1992) 8pp
• 392 - "Neophoca cinerea" [Australian sea lion]. Ling JK (1992) 7pp
• 449 - "Mirounga angustirostris" [Northern elephant seal]. Stewart BS, Huber HR (1993) 10pp

Particular Regions

Anderson S (1990) - "Seals" [UK]. Whittet Books, London. 128pp ISBN:0-9054-8380-4

Bryden M, Marsh H, Shaughnessy P (1998) - "Dugongs, whales, dolphins and seals: a guide to the sea mammals of Australasia". Allen & Unwin, St Leonards. 176pp ISBN:1-8644-8656-2

Duguy R, Robineau D (1982) - "Guide des mammifères marines d'Europe" [In French - Guide to European marine mammals]. Delachaux, Niestle, Paris. 200pp

Duguy R, Robineau D (eds) (1992) - "Handbuch der säugetiere Europas Vol 6, Meeressäuger, Teil II: Robben - Pinnipedia" [In German - Handbook of European mammals Vol 6, Marine mammals, Part II: Seals - Pinnipedia]. Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden. 309pp

Hannah J (1998) - "Seals of Atlantic Canada and the Northeastern United States: a field guide". IMMA Inc., Guelph, Canada. 33pp ISBN: 0-9698-1713-4

Katona SK, Rough V, Richardson DT (1993) - "A field guide to whales, porpoises and seals from Cape Cod to Newfoundland" (4th Edition, Revised). Smithsonian Institution Press. 316pp ISBN:1-5609-8333-7

Reijnders PJH, Wolff WJ (eds) (1981) - "Marine mammals of the Wadden Sea". AA Balkema, Rotterdam. 64pp

Wynne K (1997) - "Guide to marine mammals of Alaska" (2nd Edition). University of Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant College Program. 80pp ISBN:1-5661-2044-6 1997

Specific Issues

Busch BC (1985) - "The war against the seals: a history of the North American seal fishery". McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston & Montreal 392pp ISBN:0-7735-0610-1 + A Sutton Publishing 320pp ISBN:0-8629-9217-6

Davies B (1989) - "Red ice: my fight to save the seals" [Canadian seal hunt]. Methuen London Ltd + Magna Large Print Books, North Yorkshire 347pp ISBN:0-7505-0061-1 [1991]

Flint S (1979) - "Let the seals live!" [The 1978 attempted grey seal cull in Orkney, UK]. Thule Press, Sandwick. 170pp ISBN: 0-9061-9135-1

Geraci JR, St Aubin DJ (1990) - "Sea mammals and oil: confronting the risks". Academic Press, London & San Diego. 304pp

Geraci JR, Lounsbury VJ (1993) - "Marine mammals ashore: a field guide for strandings". Texas A&M Sea Grant Publications, Galveston. 305pp ISBN:1-8835-5001-7

Johnson W (1988) - "The monk seal conspiracy" [Struggle to save the Mediterranean monk seal]. Heretic Books, London. 206pp ISBN: 0-9460-9723-2 1988

Loughlin TR (ed) (1994) - "Marine mammals and the Exxon Valdez". Academic Press, San Diego & London. 395pp ISBN:0-1245-6160-8

Northridge SP (1991) - "An updated world review of interactions between marine mammals and fisheries". FAO Fish Tech Paper 251 Supplement 1. 63pp ISBN: 9-2510-3054-5

Richardson WJ, Greene CR Jr, Malme CI, Thomson DH (eds) (1995) - "Marine mammals and noise". Academic Press, San Diego & London. 576pp ISBN:0-1258-8440-0

Trillmich F, Ono KA (eds) (1991) - "Pinnipeds and El Niño: responses to environmental stress". Springer-Verlag (Ecology Studies Series). 293pp ISBN:3-5405-3634-5

Young K (1998) - "Seal watching in the UK and Republic Of Ireland". International Fund for Animal Welfare. 52pp ISBN: 0-9010-0203-9

Biology & Ecology

Boyd I (ed) (1993) - "Marine mammals: advances in behavioural and population biology". Oxford University Press. 404pp ISBN:0-1985-4069-8

Gentry RL, Kooyman GL (eds) (1986) - "Fur seals: maternal strategies on land and at sea". Princeton University Press. 191pp ISBN:0-691-08400-9 & ISBN:0-691-08399-1

Laws RM (ed) (1993) - "Antarctic seals: research methods and techniques". Cambridge University Press (Studies in Polar Research). 412pp ISBN:0-5214-4302-4

Le Boeuf BJ, Laws RM (eds) (1994) - "Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior and physiology". University of California Press. 414pp ISBN:0-520-08364-4

Renouf D (ed) (1991) - "Behaviour of pinnipeds". Chapman & Hall. 304pp ISBN:0-412-30540-2

Thomas JA, Kastelein RA, Supin AY (eds) (1993) - "Marine mammal sensory systems". Plenum Press, NY. 768pp ISBN:0-3064-4351-1

Children's

Arrigoni P et al (1995) - "Harpo the baby harp seal". Travel Publishers International, Fairfax, California. 32pp ISBN:0-9625-4688-7

Baker L (1990) - "Seals". F Watts 32pp ISBN:0-7496-0352-6 + Two-Can Pub ISBN:1-8543-4071-9

Barrett (1991) - "Seals and walruses". F Watts. 32pp ISBN:0-7496-0274-0

Daniels L (1997) - "Seal on the shore". Hodder Children's Books, London. 154pp ISBN: 0-3406-8660-X

Ganeri (1993) - "Sea mammals". Simon & Schuster Young Books (Pointers Series). ISBN:0-7500-1456-3

Hooper M, Kitchen B (illus.) (1996) - "Seal" [Weddell seals]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & NY & Melbourne. 16pp ISBN:0-5214-7789-1

Lepthien EU (1996) - "Walruses". New York Children's Press (A True Book Series). ISBN:0-5162-0162-X

Matthews D, Guravich D (photos) (1996) "Harp seal pups". Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, NY. ISBN:0-6898-0014-2

Papastavrou V (1993) - "Whale" [Includes coverage of pinnipeds]. Dorling Kindersley Ltd, London. 64pp ISBN:0-7513-6018-X