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Title: Cascade-Olympic Natural History by Daniel Mathews ISBN: 0-9620782-1-2 Publisher: Raven Editions Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! Sets the standard for nature guidebooks.
Comment: Most of us who enjoy nature have relied upon "bird books" or other guides to the species at one time or another as we inquire about our surroundings. These dull but thorough reference books often make their topics LESS interesting, quelling the interests that they're supposed to serve. We look up our bird, animal or plant and then move on having learned little more than its Latin name. Ugh.
This book shines like a beacon to future nature writers as it uses every description as the basis for a prosaic mini-essay; rewarding curiosity with enlightenment, fascination and delight. Imagine a reference book so enticing to read that you can't stop reading with just one description. Instead, the object of your curiosity serves as a mere starting point in the book; the first page of what often becomes a genuine sit-down-and-read-it experience.
If every nature writer put this much love into their topics, the trails would be overrun with enthusiastic hikers. Here's hoping that the author visits your neck of the woods soon, and provides you with the same exuberant writing he's given us here in the Pacific Northwest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow. Sets the standard for nature guidebooks.
Comment: Most of us who enjoy nature have relied upon "bird books" or other guides to the species at one time or another as we inquire about our surroundings. These dull but thorough reference books often make their topics LESS interesting, quelling the interests that they're supposed to serve. We look up our bird, animal or plant and then move on having learned little more than its Latin name. Ugh.
This book shines like a beacon to future nature writers as it uses every description as the basis for a prosaic mini-essay; rewarding curiosity with enlightenment, fascination and delight. Imagine a reference book so enticing to read that you can't stop reading with just one description. Instead, the object of your curiosity serves as a mere starting point in the book; the first page of what often becomes a genuine sit-down-and-read-it experience.
If every nature writer put this much love into their topics, the trails would be overrun with enthusiastic hikers. Here's hoping that the author visits your neck of the woods soon, and provides you with the same exuberant writing he's given us here in the Pacific Northwest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fun to Read!
Comment: I also have ordered this as a gift for several this year, including the revised edition for myself. Definitely not just a reference book but a great read also. I actually read the whole book,rather than just saving for information on specifics, when I got my first copy years ago.
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Title: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon ISBN: 1551050404 Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics by Stephen Whitney ISBN: 0898860776 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Geology of the North Cascades: A Mountain Mosaic by R. W. Tabor, Ralph Haugerud ISBN: 0898866235 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Natural History of Puget Sound Country by Arthur R. Kruckeberg ISBN: 029597477X Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Pacific Northwest (National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest) by National Audubon Society, Peter Alden ISBN: 0679446796 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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