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For the untrained observer, it can be quite a challenge to sort out the many trees that make up a stand of older forest in, say, New England or the Ozarks. This well-illustrated guidebook, covering 364 species, comes to the rescue with photographs organized in several ways: by, for example, the shape of the leaf or needle, by the fruit, by the flower or cone, and by autumn coloration. Following one visible characteristic or another, the reader can narrow the range of possibilities, then turn to an informative text that describes a tree's physical characteristics, habitat, and range. Many of the species covered are relatively rare, such as the "stinking cedar" of the Georgia-Florida border; others are locally abundant, such as the paper birch of the boreal forest, used to make ice-cream sticks; still others, such as the smooth sumac, are widespread. The guidebook also covers ornamentals introduced from other continents, such as the Chinese privet and Mahaleb cherry. --Gregory McNamee
Book Description
Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves -- all can be quickly accessed making this the ideal field guide for any time of year.
Note: the Eastern Edition generally covers states east of the Rocky Mountains, while the Western Edition covers the Rocky Mountain range and all the states to the west of it.
Customer Reviews:
Great homeschool material.......2007-10-17
My age 14 grandson's biology text book had a few pages of information about trees, which were enough to whet his appetite to know more. We gave him the Audubon Field Guide to North American Trees - Eastern - which was perfect for the NE Tennessee - North Carolina area where he lives. This book greatly increased his knowledge of trees and his environment.
Great Guide that is ALMOST Perfect.......2007-08-18
I have always liked the Audubon Society Field Guides. This particular guide is great in the amount of color photos for sometimes easily identifying species in all seasons, whether from the fall leaves, bark, summer leaves, and the fruit it produces. Also the organization of the guide is very good. My cons below are NOT enough to prevent me from recommending this guide. Compared to other guides it's still the best.
CONS: The amount of information in the back is not always consistent. Also there still isn't always an easy way to differentiate some of the similar species (e.g. Oaks). In other words the pictures and/or the descriptions are not enough to distinguish like species.
helpful.......2007-07-03
Very much help for figuring out what trees we have and we have a lot. Pictures are very nice and cross reference if you aren't totally sure of what you are looking at. Very handy size too
Great Book.......2007-06-27
Every tree and every leaf that you can think of is in this book. Great clear pictures and the information is great. So glad I purchased this book for my husband. The equivalant to bird watching. Tree watching.
Information Packed.......2007-05-17
My new hobby is woodturning bowls so I bought this book to help me identify trees that supply my wood. Once I learned how to search the material, this book has been great fun and very useful. I take it with me when I walk my dog around the neighborhood to identify trees.
Book Description
A pictorial field guide to wildflowers, organized by season of bloom, for the Upper Great Lakes Regions, Eastern Canada and Northeastern USA. A comprehensive guide with over 340 species of native and naturalized plants, it is illustrated with more than 620 full color photos showing flowers, stems and leaves, fruits and habitat to better aid in identification. Sections on grasses and sedges, vines, flowering woody plants and ferns (plants without flowers) are included. Each species is described and identified by common and scientific names. Short guides to the naming of plants and how to use the book get the reader off to a fast start to use it efficiently. A section describing plant families along with indexes of common and scientific names and a bibliography round out the book. The Smyth-sewn binding and laminated cover give it durability.
Customer Reviews:
Great resource.......2003-05-01
This is one of the finest books on Midwestern wildflowers. I originally bought the book for my mother and then needed one for myself. I continually pour through this book in anticipation of spring and as I find something in the woods that needs identifying. The book contains great pictures and is organized in general order of appearance in the wild.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book For This Beginner.......2006-06-07
I echo the previous review - this book is heavy duty for beginners and there are a lot of pictures to thumb through. However, I'm a beginner beginner and I had a lot of flower pictures I had taken that I wanted to identify. This book was a great help, along with Audubon's Field Guide to North American Wildflowers. This book covers much that theirs doesn't - not a whole lot of overlap between the two - so they're very complementary. If you don't mind taking the time to go through the EXCELLENT pictures, this is a very good reference - especially for someone who know next to nothing about wildflowers such as myself.
Best single book for the serious enthusiast.......1999-07-26
Wilbur Duncan is professor emeritus of botany at the Univeristy of Georgia, and with his wife, Marion, have travelled extensively through the eastern US photographing and studying the plants. This book is essentially an update to his 1978 Wildflowers of the Southeast United States, expanded to include the area east of the Mississippi River.
Note to begninners and novices: this is a pretty heavy-duty book, no shortcuts to get to the flower by color or leaf. If you ID the "thumb-through" method, it will take time as there are 630 species with photographs. That's a lot to thumb through. The first portion of the book is descriptions of the species (631) arranged by family and genus. So a working knowledge of scientific names at the family and genus level is a very big help. All the photographs are labelled ONLY with scientific names. Trying it out on a total beginner and a novice taught me that scientific names are a hindrance to easy learning, BUT, if you really want to know what species you are looking at, it is an absolute necessity. That's why it's for the SERIOUS enthusiast.
Scott Ranger
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Eastern Wildflowers
Rose Houk
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Photo Essays
| Photography
| Arts & Photography
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Flowers
| Plants
| Biological Sciences
| Science
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General
| Plants
| Biological Sciences
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General
| Botany
| Biological Sciences
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ASIN: 0877015147 |
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Eastern North America's Wildflowers
Louis C. Linn
Manufacturer: E P Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Plants
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Botany
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
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ASIN: 087690262X |
Customer Reviews:
Eastern North America's Wild Flowers.......2000-10-06
Excellent drawings of Wild Flowers. Fine details. And to think he drew them without picking them! Excellent book of his original drawings.
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Eastern Wildflowers
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0877015945 |
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Attention landlubbers: If you don't know your port from your starboard, tacking from jibing, then you need to experience clear sailing with the Dummies. With the usual cargo of good humor and demystifying tone, this mast in the Dummies armada lifts the fog on confusing nautical language, teaches the basics about maneuvering a sailboat from dock to open ocean, floats important safety information, and offers advice and info on a variety of related issues (knots, racing, sailboards, how to buy a sailboat). Whether you want to learn to sail or just talk like a sailor, Sailing for Dummies is your anchor to life on the water.
Book Description
Interested in learning to sail but feel like you’re navigating in murky waters? Sailing for Dummies, Second Edition introduces the basics of sailing, looks at the different types of sailboats and their basic parts, and teaches you everything you need to know before you leave the dock.
In Sailing for Dummies, Second Edition, two U.S. sailing champions show you how to:
- Find and choose a sailing school
- Use life jackets correctly
- Tie ten nautical knots
- Handle sailing emergencies (such as capsizing and rescuing a man overboard)
- Launch your boat from a trailer, ramp, or beach
- Get your boat from point A to point B (and back again)
- Predict and respond to water and wind conditions
- Read charts, plot your course, use a compass, and find your position at sea
Sailing for Dummies shows you that getting out on the water is easier than you think. The authors keep the sailor-speak to a minimum where possible, but give you a grasp of the terminology you need to safely and effectively communicate with your crew. A textbook, user’s manual, and reference all in one, this book takes the intimidation out of sailing and gives you the skills and confidence you need to get your feet wet and become the sailing pro you’ve always wanted to be. Anchors away!
Customer Reviews:
Well done !!!.......2007-10-06
This book is well written. I continue to buy this book for friends who want to learn more about sailing. As a result, I get better and better crew members on my Catalina 36.
First half of it very good.......2007-09-02
While not as good as Gary Jobson's Sailing Fundamentals, this is a good beginning book for sailors.
Sailing For Dummies.......2007-04-12
This is an excellent resource guide for those who are beginning sailing. The only thing it lacks is an adequate number of photos illustrating processes & procedures on the water.
If I would have had such a book, back in 1990 when I purchased my own Cruising Sloop keelboat, it would have helped to make my learning curve a lot easier.
A Sailing Handbook.......2007-04-10
The basics of sailing are told with personal experiences which make this handbook fun and entertaining. You'll learn things about sailing you didn't know you would need to know.
Excellently written book.......2007-04-10
Lusting to sail the Bahamas, this is the first sailing book I have read, and it was just what I needed. It is nicely written, so that I could read it like a novel. They have a good sense of humor and they cover a lot of what you need to know.
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Sailing for Dummies
Manufacturer: HUNGRY MINDS (TWLD)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GO4A10 |
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Segeln Fur Dummies
J.J. Isler , and
Peter Isler
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Sailing
| Water Sports
| Sports
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German
| Foreign Language Nonfiction
| Nonfiction
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ASIN: 3527700897 |
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Great Book .......2004-10-13
Ann Fielding has put together an informative book that is very useful for snorkeling.
A nice addition to any saltwater aquarium hobbyists' library.......1998-10-05
This book is packed with SPECTACULAR photos of fishes, corals and inverts found in Hawaiian waters. It includes a common name, scientific name, Hawaiian name (if applicable), and description with each photo. It is a good guide in helping to identify and learn more about these marine animals.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful Photos.......2000-10-25
We received "Sand to Sea" as a gift when our children were toddlers. From the earliest age they loved the photos. As they got older they asked us to read the text as well. The book begins on the shore, moves to the tide-pools, out to the coral reefs and beyond into the ocean, introducing animals from each habitat. The text is basic but well-written and we enjoyed learning the Hawaiian names of many creatures, including the 12-syllable name for one fish! There are extraordinary color photos on each page. My boys especially loved the photos showing children snorkeling among reef-fish and exploring the marine world. "Sand to Sea" is an excellent introduction to Pacific marine life and we highly recommend it for children, ages 2-10.
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Fielding's Hawaii
Marael Johnson , and
Margie Nelson
Manufacturer: Fielding Worldwide
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Fielding
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Pacific
| West
| Regions
| United States
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| Hawaii
| States
| United States
| Travel
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ASIN: 1569521131 |
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Fielding's Hawaii, 1991
Rachel J. Christmas
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Fielding
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| Travel
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| United States
| Travel
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ASIN: 0688073646 |
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Fielding's Hawaii, 1993
Rachel Jackson Christmas
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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| Beaches
| Business Travel
| Cruises
| Essays & Travelogues
| Food & Lodging
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| Pictorial
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| Australia & South Pacific
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ASIN: 068811430X |
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Coral: A Hawaiian resource : an instructional guidebook for teachers
Ann Fielding
Manufacturer: Office of Instructional Services/General Education Branch, Dept. of Education, State of Hawaii
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
Coral Reefs
| Oceans & Seas
| Nature & Ecology
| Science
| Subjects
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Coral Reefs
| Ecosystems
| Outdoors & Nature
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ASIN: B0006XWK5E |
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Fielding s Hawaii, 1994 (Travel Guides Ser.)
Rachel J. Christmas
Manufacturer: Fielding Worldwide, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Fielding
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| Travel
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| Hawaii
| States
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ASIN: 1569520143 |
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Hawaii (Fielding's Hawaii)
Fielding Worldwide Inc
Manufacturer: Fielding Worldwide
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Guidebooks
| Reference & Tips
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| Hawaii
| States
| United States
| Travel
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ASIN: 1569521808 |
Book Description
New Jersey transplant and spunky brunette, Annisa, and her Sand Dune High cheerleading squad are headed to Nationals! Just when she thinks her blonde teammates have accepted her, some of the girls have suddenly made it their mission to convert Annisa to the blonde side. Annisa thinks her luck is finally changing when her old squad makes a surprise appearance at Nationals, but soon it turns into a Jersey vs. Florida turf battle. Torn between two worlds, and two hair colors, can one nonblonde cheerleader make it through the sea of highlights and rock Nationals her own way?
Customer Reviews:
this book was great.......2006-08-14
I loved the first book, i was a non blonde cheer leader, so i got brunettes strike back. I thought it wasnt going to be as good but i was wrong! it was great!! i loved it!
Average.......2006-06-02
I really enjoyed the first book in this series.
Unfortunately, Brunettes Strike Back was just not as charming and funny as the first one.
Our main heroine is back and she is in love with Daniel - but does he belong to someone else?
While the storyline was enjoyable, it felt contrived to me and I miss the spontaneity of the first book. The writing style is great as always, but for some reason, this one did not grab me.
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