The Sound of the SeaSeashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewellery before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the molluscs that make them. Spiralling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North