Hi all,
I accidentally posted this under the wrong forum a while back. I hope that members from different forums can work together for a common purpose. There's an effort underway at Thamnophis.com to determine the level of interest that garter snake keepers have in getting Europe's best garter snake book (Strumpfbandnattern) translated from German into English. If the interest level is great enough, the publisher may be willing to reprint the book in English. New copies of Strumpfbandnattern (written in German) sell for the equivalent of $35 USD. Even if you wouldn't read it, others would and be able to answer your questions and ultimately help you out.
In comparison, The Garter Snakes by Rossman et al. is widely considered to be the best book on garter snakes written in English. New copies sell for $64 USD.
The current version of Strumpfbandnattern, written in German, can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.ms-verlag.de/index.php?12...t_products=309
The poll to determine the interest level for an English translation is at the following link:
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gene...ndnattern.html
More info on this book, in English, can be found at:
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gene...ake-books.html
Thanks for your attention.
Rick