title: The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life of California
author: J. Duane Sept
description: <b>Duane Sept</b>'s passion for wildlife has brought him to study his subjects and to work throughout western Canada as a biologist, writer, professional photographer and environmental consultant. His photographs and writings have been published in numerous periodicals, including <i>BBC Wildlife</i>, <i>Canadian Wildlife</i>, <i>Nature Canada</i> and <i>Outdoor Canada</i>. He lives with his wife and two children on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
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  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  
  A huge thanks to my alma mater, Tulane University, and to my dear friends and
  New Orleans natives, Nancy Mayer Mencke and Lynda Ryan Casanova, for showing
  me the Crescent City and all of its beauty and some of its secrets. Thanks
  also to my father, William Lloyd Sconiers, Biloxi High School Class of 1950,
  for many things but especially for his stories of growing up in Biloxi,
  Mississippi, and for teaching me the correct pronunciation of
  “Tchoutacabouffa.”
  
  
  To friend and home builder, Julie Kenney of Kenney-Moise, Inc., for taking
  pictures of the gulf in winter and describing flora and fauna longdistance—not
  to mention telling me about the ins and outs of beach house construction—my
  undying gratitude.
  
  
  And, of course, thank you to Wendy Wax and Susan Crandall, for all of your
  wonderful insights and critiques, and for reading this book as fast as I could
  write it!
  
  
  
  
  
  **New American Library Titles by Karen White**
  
  
  _Falling Home_  
  _On Folly Beach_  
  _The Los