| | A Field Guide to Texas Snakes |  | Author: Alan Tennant
Publisher: Gulf Pub Co
Category: Book
Buy New: $115.70
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 311615
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 266
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0877190127
EAN: 9780877190127
ASIN: 0877190127
Publication Date: June 1990
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Product Description
This second edition provides fascinating insights into the biology and behavior of Texas snakes, including the latest findings on abundance, reproductive habits, what snakes eat, and size. This guide is an invaluable tool for indentifying, understanding, and appreciating Texas' world-renowned snake population- the largest in the U.S.
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Great book, check used prices September 19, 2006
I came to this site to buy this book, but after seeing the prices I called a local non-discount book store (the one with Star Bucks in it) and bought it new for $24.95. What's with the inflated prices for a used paperback? Makes no sense to me.
Detailed and Example Pictures August 3, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very thorough research, orderly referenced example pictures, and easy to use.
Don't kill 'em all !! July 7, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have snakes. Lots of them. But rather than "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out", as my husband prefers, I take this book with me during ourdoor activities and literally look up the snake I'm looking at. The photos are extremely helpful, limited only by my own perceptual problems---for example, Texas brown snakes look like rat snakes look like copperheads to me, even in the pictures. But the majority of the snakes in Texas and in the book do NOT deserve to die...life imprisonment, maybe...this is a very comforting book to own.
Excellent field guide great pictures & information! November 15, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This field guide on snakes is excellent. The pictures of each snake are clear and you can identify them easily when you see them in the wild (or in you're house). The organization of this book splits up into two sections venomous and nonvenomous which allows a very quick way to tell if you should be anywhere near the snake. The infromation on each type is plentiful and everything you need to know is included. There are maps of where to find each type and whether they are endangered or protected in the state of Texas. A system is given in the beginning of the book for how to easily determine a snake and also what to do if you happen to be bit by a venomous type. The only thing I would like to see in the next revision is the striking distance of each snake which isn't given in this book.
Too bad I can't give this one 6 stars. March 1, 2002
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
A great book. A fantastic book. It's slightly larger than what one might expect for a field guide, but the difference is put to good use. Not only are the excellent photographs printed at such high resolution that you expect to see these scaled beauties slithering off the pages, but the accompanying text is so easy to read that you might find it to be a page-turner that ranks with some pretty good novels. This book is crammed with really useful or, at the very least, interesting info -- like the relative potencies of venoms from different snakes. (You might be surprised...) A detailed discussion of the mechanisms associated with different snake venoms and what might be done to counter them is really fascinating. The text for each species is accompanied by a distribution map; that text includes information on whether the snake in question is venomous, its behavior, reproduction, abundance, size, etc. I can't say enough good stuff about this book. If you live in a state adjacent to Texas and Mr. Tennant hasn't written a book about your snake population, it would well be worth getting this one. He also wrote the "Field Guide to Snakes of Florida," so you guys in Florida are lucky, too! This book made me want to head out at night to the local megapuddles that form near my house south of Houston to see what might be after those little frogs that seem to appear out of nowhere in the spring. Now, that might seem to be a little strange, but if you've read this book, you probably know what I mean.
Come to think of it, I'd like to give this one 7 stars...
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