This December, a new field guide to over eight hundred of the plants, birds, butterflies, fish, and mammals which inhabit the arctic regions around the globe will be published by Princeton University Press: Sharon Chester’s “The Arctic Guide; Wildlife of the Far North.”
When it really comes right down to it, there are two basic types of natural history guidebooks: those that help you to identify things you saw and those that teach you about the existence of things you’ll likely never see. Most fall into the first category; field guides to birds, butterflies, flowering plants, and so […]
Field guides to specific urban neighborhoods? When Leslie Day’s new book Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City is published by Johns Hopkins University Press, then yes, there will be – one.
Building on the paradigm of a regional general natural history field guide that Kaufman originally originally established in the Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England, this second volume in the series takes up the flora and fauna of – as well as the geology, climate, and night sky as seen from – Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.