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| The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) | 
| Author: John Muir Laws
Publisher: Heyday Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 12686
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 366
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5 x 0.3
ISBN: 159714052X
Dewey Decimal Number: 508.7944
EAN: 9781597140522
ASIN: 159714052X
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Product Description
With more than 2,800 original watercolor illustrations, John Muir Laws has masterfully catalogued over 1,700 species of Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and other small animals. The guide is designed for quick and easy use in the field. Color tabs and a unique system of keys and organization assist in the quick identification of the living things encountered along the trail, while Laws s illustrations capture the feeling of plants and animals with detail critical for their classification.
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the laws field guide to the sierra nevada May 16, 2008
This book is amazing. With all the different species of life.
I'm going to keep it in my car. Some times when we're driving; my husband will say "what kind of bird was that" or "what kind of flower".
It's very imformative and very handy.
Thank you
Art for the Sierra Crowd May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This field guide is perfect for the hiker and camper or general nature lover who lives near the Sierra Mountain range in central California or who intends to vist that region. The authur has drawn almost all of the animal, flowers,insect and bird life to be found in the Western and eastern Sierra mountain range in beautful color by hand. To identify the various life forms you simply look under the various topies and you no doubt will ID that strange bug or plant. You can trust the author and his work is among the best selling of the genre. This is one of the most readable guides to life in the Sierra's and the artwork is first rate. This little guide is perfect for the rucksack crowd in terms of size and weight. This guide has limited written commitary as the artwork is the key to this field guide. This is a well-designed book, making for effortless page-turning and the writer/artist really get into the detail of the creatures shown. You will enjoy your quick hike much more and will have a dramatic change of atmosphere as you reference the life surrounding you in these mountains of great beauty. I recommend this guide highly.
Field guide to the Sierra Nevada April 27, 2008
Wonderful guide. Good information and well drawn pictures. Good guide for California not only the mountains. A useful reference. Highly recommended.
I Hate This Book April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hate this book. For years I have been telling fellow natural history writers that the field guide model is stagnant, boring and dull, and anyone who wastes his time writing one could be doing something more useful, like picking up trash on the roadside. I have insisted there is nothing new and interesting that can come out of additional field guides -- it has all been done and overdone.
So what happens? This guy Laws comes along and makes me a liar. And even a fool. He does a field guide that sparkles. That identifies everything you run into. That is based on paintings better than I can do. That is organized in a uniquely instinctive way.
And worst of all, that puts together the whole unlikely package with all the charm and humor that Laws expresses in person. That's why I hate this book.
Everybody should buy one to see if they hate it too.
Sierra Nevada Nature Guide February 22, 2008
If you live (or visit) the Sierra Nevada's and like nature, this is a must field guide to purchase. Very helpful and well illustrated.
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