When it comes to people with whom you’d most enjoy sitting and listening whilst they recount some of the stories they’ve accumulated throughout their respective lives, few can compare to a well-seasoned natural history museum curator.
Such a wide-angle overview of nature is only possible for a limited geographic area if the book in which it is contained is to be sufficiently compact to fit into a jacket pocket or field bag; which is why the Kaufmans limited the scope of this field guide to the nature of just New England.