This guide answers often-asked questions such as: What does a frog dropping or lizard burrow look like? How do you read a snake track? What do you do when you find a snake in your garden? What is the correct way of handling a frog or photographing a reptile? It contains species' scientific and common names, superb colour photographs for indentification purposes, descriptions of key diagnostic characteristics, distribution maps and extensive information on preferred habitats. The authors' field trip accounts and often humorous bush anecdotes searching for reptiles and frogs make this a must-have, practical field guide to the herpetology of Southwestern Australia.