The Conch Book is fun, informative and artfully illustrated; truly "everything you've always wanted to know about the Queen Conch."

"I personally sampled everything, every recipe and way of eating it. There was always a bag of conch hanging overboard," she says. A review in Islands magazine says the book is "guaranteed to make an honorary conchologist out of everyone-and to whet your taste for the mollusk."

"Spending time in the Bahamas, I realized the Queen Conch was a staple in the diet for Bahamians and formed the base for a lot of business, yet I saw there was relatively little information on it. I thought that, pictorially, it would be fun. So I researched it aboard the Sea Wind, in Nassau, in Florida at the University of Miami, and even in Bermuda. Bermuda used to have conchs; it was the farthest north they went." (Dee Carstarphen)