Books

RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW! Featuring Asian Geographic's latest book, The Lives of Gobies By Dr Klaus M. Stiefel, and probably the best gift for the holidays for your favourite ones! For the latest updates, follow us on www.asiangeo.com. Pre-order your copy now. Out in store on Dec!   “The Lives of Gobies” describes the biology and natural history of the one of the largest families of fishes – the gobies. There are many noteworthy aspects to their biology: they are highly diverse with more than 2000 species, and often live extremely short lives, of only weeks, the shortest known life-spans of all vertebrates. Gobies are also supremely well adapted to live on corals and sponges by matching their hosts in colour and pattern. Shrimp-gobies share burrows with crustaceans and communicate with them in sophisticated ways, while freshwater gobies climb hundred-meter high waterfalls. Finally, some very specialized gobies, the mudskippers, made the step onto land, like our ancestors in Paleozoic times. Written for nature enthusiasts and scuba divers. The information is scientifically cutting-edge, but presented in an easy-going, readable format appealing to interested lay public. The text is complemented with many of the authors own photographs of these fascinating fishes, and goby shots by underwater photo great Marty Snyderman. Dr Klaus M. Stiefel is a biologist, science writer, underwater photographer and scuba instructor based in Dumaguete in the Philippines, where he teaches at Silliman University.  

Colours of Asia presents Asia’s culture, people, practices and landscapes through a curation of photographs by award-winning photographers from Asia and beyond. Published in conjunction with Images of Asia 2018 — Asian Geographic’s annual photo competition —the photo book opens with a collection of stunning images by this year’s competition judges: Manuel Librodo, Tommy Morris, Brendan O’Se, Jose Jeuland, David Tay, Gathot Subroto and Shavonne Wong. Bringing even more interesting perpectives of Asia to this collectors’ must-have are several photographers who specialise in landscape, portrait and documentary photography. Also featured are selected winning and shortlisted entries from the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most diverse photography competition. Covering different forms of photography such as street, conceptual and fashion photography — which are not usually published in Asian Geographic magazines — Colours of Asia promises to be a visual feast that delights and inspires.