[Coral-List] "The Scleractinians of Cuba" published in Spanish with free access

[Vassil Zlatarski]

Dear Coral-Listers,

The Harte Research Institute (HRI) for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi received a grant and published a limited number
of hard copies of "Los escleractinios de Cuba", as well as an e-mail book.
HRI will chose those selected Spanish-speaking coral reef scientists, who
will likely benefit from the look in their studies.   Every else is welcome
to a free copy of the e-book on this Spanish Edition Legacy Book at
www.harteresearchinstitute.org  .
or
https://www.google.com/search?q=Legacy+Book+Los+escleractinios+de+Cuba&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1
After opening Legacy Book Los escleractinios de Cuba, under front cover's
photo the first PDF to download is Los escleractinios de Cuba.

At your attention an excerpt from the introductory words of Dr, Wes
Tunnell, who made the Spanish version real by leading the publishing
process to his very last days.

"The Scleractinians of Cuba book is the summation and synthesis of
knowledge gained from perhaps the most
detailed study of stony corals ever undertaken in the Caribbean Sea. This
massive project, led by Vassil Zlatarski of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences during 1970-73, was in cooperation and
collaboration with scientists from the Institute
of Oceanology in Havana, Cuba. After years of painstaking and detailed
analyses by the scientists, and 1000s of photographs
by Bogdan Jablensky, the first edition of the book was published in Russian
in 1980. In 1982, a second edition was
published in French. Due to small printing runs of these two earlier
editions, and the lack of a Spanish or English version,
the book and its contents are little known or available to modern coral
reef scientists. Eventually, a Spanish version of the
book translated, but it was only recently made available as a PDF version
on compact disk. Now, in 2017, HRI is making
the Spanish version of the very important work available in print for Cuban
and other Spanish speaking countries, and
HRI will have an e-book of this same version available in open access for
anyone to download from the HRI website by
2019."

Best for all,

Vassil

Vassil Zlatarski
D.Sc. (Biology), Ph.D. (Geology)