From garter snakes and vipers to boas and pythons, Peter Stafford and David Gower describe the biology and natural history of snakes, highlighting the variety and complexity of this group that includes almost 3000 living species.
A very well written book that covers a wide range of snakes, however, I feel this book glazes over some very complicated subjects and thoroughly explains some common facts. Not necessarily an introductory book in my opinion.
I can't say whether this was the best book about snakes out there, but it was the one I had, and I got a lot of joy out of reading it. it was fairly technical, but I learned a lot. snakes are very cool-- I'm a big fan.