Shipworm - Toredo Books
Binding: Concertina - presenting text and Scanning Electron Microscope images.
The text focuses on a brief history and structure of Toredo, commonly known as shipworms that are devastating to wood. Highlighted also is the remarkable scientist Ruth Turner, the world expert on Toredo who supplied the wood used for these books. Toredo is a clam that has an amazing shell endowed with a myriad of microscopic teeth that are depicted in the Scanning Electron Microscope images included in these books.
Materials: Covers of wood 3 x 3 inches that are bored by shipworms.
