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"The Vipers of Europe"

Tim Cole

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I just received a new book and thought I would share it here.

This was recently translated from German in 2006. The author Johan De Smedt has done a great job with this book. Over 300 pages with a lot of photos and husbandry information. This is the definitive book on European Vipers. I strongly recommend it. You can order it directly from the author. His website is
www.voerdae.de.
 

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Dear Mr. Cole,

Thank you very much for the compliments.

It was a lot of work finishing the book. The first German edition from 2001 toke me about 4 years, the new extented and revised English edition toke me another 3 years.

Not the writing was hardest thing, but making pictues of those magnificent animals in the wild nature. So I had to travel a lot all around Europe to find the vipers in their natural habitat.

Sincerely,
Johan De Smedt
 
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