I am extremely happy and proud to be able to announce that the new Italian edition of my book on the sharks of the Mediterranean Sea has just been published. It’s the most complete and detailed publication released to date on this topic.
In 2005 the book « Haie im Mittelmeer » was published in Germany: it was my first complete book on sharks of the Mediterranean Sea. Although I had written the manuscript in Italian, at the time no Italian publisher had shown interest in publishing it. My friend and colleague Harald Bänsch expressed his interest in translating the text into German. Therefore the first edition of my book was published in German by the publisher Franckh-Kosmos, with Harald Bänsch as co-author. In 2008 the book was published in Italian by Class Editori, and in 2015 it was published in French by Turtle Prod Édition and in English by McFarland & Company. With each edition, I have necessarily modified the contents of the book, both in terms of text and pictures. In 2021 the management of Class Editori informed me that they were not interested in producing a new updated Italian edition of the book and gave me the go-ahead to propose it to another publisher. I therefore decided to have the book published by Magenes Editoriale, which had already published three of my other books (« La baia degli squali volanti », « Biologia dello squalo bianco » and « Sharks of the Maldives »). The new Italian edition of the book is now available, it is very beautiful and the Foreword is by Andrew Fox.
DE MADDALENA, A. (2024): Squali del Mediterraneo. Magenes Editoriale, Milano, 292 pp., color photographs and black and white drawings. ISBN: 9788866492382. Language: Italian. Price: EUR 28.
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