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 A Good Field Guide March 17, 2008
This is our first family field guide that we picked up at a used book sale. It is not comprehensive, but covers more than the basics well. The color illustrations are great and we have learned much from the book so far in the year that we've owned it.
Every Family Should Have This Book January 1, 2008
Our family uses this book for identification of North American Wildlife -Animals - all the time. We live on a farm with a lake and have many different waterfowl, fox, beavers, deer and other animals visit our farm and we really enjoy looking up the animals to learn its' name, habitat and food requirements. Also as an artist I personally use the beautiful color drawings of the animals as a reference guide to correctly paint them.
If I could only keep one field guide with me, this would be IT.... July 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My dad would occasionally bring me a book or two, saying "Kathy, I think you would enjoy this." He's been gone for 21 years now, and I have had to reglue sections of pages back onto the spine with PVA glue, but this little book remains the most valuable of all my huge collection of field guides. It has so many entries, and indexed by both common and scientific names; most importantly, the listings for each grouping are organized in a logical way, clustering similar species together so that you can easily find what you are looking for. One of my big gripes about some otherwise-helpful field guides is that there seems to be so little logic in their organization. This one is my favorite because it's not exhaustingly bulky. but so well-researched, that most of what you are likely to come across in your field wanderings will be found here - or you will at least have clues to locating it in a more detailed field guide in your library. They have illustrations of 34 native orchids, again, not comprehensive, but such a good representative sampling of the most-frequently found, and so well and carefully illustrated, that, again, I can give my full recommendation for this fine book. Thanks, Dad! : )
The best facts and pictures of any Wildlife book published. February 20, 1998
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book has the best fact-filled text and color portraits of any I have read. It includes over 2,000 plants and animals of all types. It is easy to read and research because each section is color tabed. If you wont to exolore Wildlife you need this Book!!
Excellent book on wildlife, wildflowers, plants and trees. July 12, 1997
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is the best resource book I have found on the subject matter. All illustrations are done beautifully in color. The following are a few of the specific identification aids used: check marks for physical feature identifiers, symbols identifing habitat, maps displaying geographic location. The book is indexed by common and scientific names, is compact, easy to handle, an excellent reference tool and is good for leisure reading
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