This field guide highlights 100 snakes found throughout the world. Readers will gain a greater understanding of these creatures and will be able to identify them in the wild. publisher's website.

What are snakes? -- How to use this book? -- Blind snakes and thread snakes -- Heavy-bodied constrictors -- Pipe snakes and shield-tailed snakes -- File snakes -- Colubroids: nonvenomous colubrids -- Colubroids: racers and whip snakes -- Colubroids: garter and water snakes -- Colubroids: rear-fanged water snakes -- Colubroids: goo-eaters -- Colubroids: tree snakes and vine snakes -- Vipers: non-pit vipers -- Vipers: pit vipers -- Terestrial elapoids -- Marine elapoids.