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| Great Smoky Mountains: A Vistor's Companion (National Parks Visitor's Companions) | 
| Author: George Wuerthner
Creator: Douglas W. Moore
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 161634
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0811724980
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.68890454
UPC: 011557024982
EAN: 9780811724982
ASIN: 0811724980
Publication Date: February 2003
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Product Description
The ecosystems within Great Smoky Mountain National Park -- from old growth forests to balds -- support a wide variety of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, and plants. This new addition to the 'Visitor's Companion' series describes and illustrates in full colour dozens of these plant and animal species. It also explores the park's geology, climate, and history -- at once a traveller's guide, field guide, and natural history of one of America's most popular national parks.
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Weak illustrations cast doubt on book July 7, 2003
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm a biologist who has spent a fair amount of time in western NC. I know something of wildlife and the Smokies, and I buy books like this to learn more. I also judge the usefulness of guidebooks by how closely they fit with what already know. I only recently bought the Visitor's Companion, and it looked quite worthwhile. However, as I was doing an initial skimming of the volume, I noticed the illustrations were not at fine as I first thought. Many of the animals looked a little chunky, and the trees were a bit squat and artificial. The Box Turtle's plastron just didn't look right. But when I reached the deer. . . I know deer, and no whitetail has a rack like the one pictured on p. 198. It looked like a touch of mule deer, elk and possibly some Asian species all fused together. What it reminds me of is an illustration from a 16th century beastiary or on a heraldic emblem -- drawn with heavy artistic license. I guess I expected the photo-realistic quality of a Peterson guide rather than a drawn-from-memory sketch. Had I noticed this earlier, the book would have hit the shelf instead of the counter. As it is, I am looking over the drawings of salamanders and songbirds with a more critical eye, and will be more likely to doublecheck the facts in the text.
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