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New Postage Stamps by Mark O'Shea
NOW AVAILABLE
(click to enlarge images)
Papua New Guinea
Monitor Lizards 2011

This stamp set is now available from the
Online O'Shea Herp Shop
Timor-Leste
Reptiles & Amphibians 2010

This stamp set is now available from the
Online O'Shea Herp Shop
Previous sets:
Papua New Guinea
Dangerous Snakes 2006

This stamp set is still available from the
Online O'Shea Shop

 


Available now
Mark O'Shea's softback edition
Venomous Snakes of the World.


Also his Dangerous Snakes of Papua New Guinea stamp issue
and all his other books on the new 'O'Shea's Herp Shop'

 

Available now
2010 edition
DK Handbook to Reptiles and Amphibians.


Visit the
'O'Shea's Herp Shop'

 

HOME: ABOUT MARK, BLOGS, FAQ AND LATEST UPDATES


Hello, I’m Mark O’Shea and I want to thank you for visiting my NEW Official website.

 

VISIT THE TIMOR PAGES


Mark searching for spitting cobras in KwaZulu Natal, S.Africa.

Expeditions, Expeditions, Expeditions,
but this new website encompasses much more than the original O'Shea's Big Adventure website.

Expeditions are the main-stay of this website. In total I have been fortunate enough to have participated in over 50 expeditions and film trips, to around 40 countries, on six continents, since the early 1980s.


WHAT'S NEW ON THE WEBSITE
(new pages will be linked from here)

Our Spanish Photo-Herp Trip is
Live
Mark's Arabian Photo-Herp Trip
is Live
Timor-Leste Phase Five is Live

Wiki

Not only does this site include all my Expeditions since the end of O'Shea's Big Adventure in 2003, it also includes individual accounts for OBA Season 4, which is not represented on the original website. It is planned to expand and improve Seasons 1-3 here also, and include the Pre-OBA expeditions from 1980-1997, as time permits.

The website also includes sections for Herpetology, Photography, Publications, Mark O'Shea's Reptile World @ WMSP, Media & Public, with new and electic sub-sections being added frequently.

I have been intrigued by snakes and other reptiles since I was a child and I kept my first snake at the age of eight. Now, almost 5 decades after snakes first attracted my attention I am still fascinated by the world of reptiles and it would be fair to say that the study of these amazing creatures had dominated almost half a century for me.

So through this website I hope to share that fascination with you, but I am getting ahead of myself, perhaps I should first provide a short biography to explain what set me on the path to becoming an herpetologist.

When you return from there, be aware this website already contains over 1,000 individual pages and thousands of photographs, if you venture in further, don't get lost!

 

Mark pursuing Brown treesnakes on Guam in the Mariana Islands, West Pacific.

 

Mark at Crater Lake, central Tasmania.