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Title: The World of Northern Evergreens by E. C. Pielou ISBN: 0-8014-9424-9 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another winner
Comment: This is the perfect book for the serious amateur naturalist or the freshman Natural Historian who will be spending any time in the northern treelands.Pielou uses a combination of clear-non-technical prose and beautiful pen-and-ink illustrations to take us through the key species and ecological relationships of the region. What is particularly delightful about the book is that although one doesn't have to be a botanist to follow the discussions, one feels always that one is in the hands of a master ecologist and writer -there are always the questions behind the questions that lead us to further understand and appreciate what we are seeing. This is the shortest of Pielou's books that I have yet read, but it is just the right size to sling into your backpack as you head off for a field station this winter, or to have by your bed when you get back & want to look up "just whatever THAT was..."
Rating: 4
Summary: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Comment: For one who lives, as I do, within the heart of the temperate rainforest, I cannot escape the din of poliotically charged rhetoric about what needs doing and saving. And rarely now do publishers resist the temptation of putting out one more tract. That is why it is so delightful to get hands on a slim volume written by someone who is really an ecologist - I do not mean an environmental advocate -- although Chris Pielou has been that too, but someone who has a real grasp of the theory and the natural history on which bona fide ecology depends.
In "The World Of Northern Evergreens" Pielou takes us on a trip into the forest, in order to answer "two simple questions" that really are one: how did this magnificent kind of ecosystem become what it is? She is so knowledgeable about the subject that she can gracefully weave in to an account of some creature or plant, just enough theory or metaphor that you can start to really "get it", and figure out what makes these places work. Only in her brief and wise epilog does she draw explicitly the lessons about the sensistivity, indeed the non-renewable nature of northern evergreen forests. The book has many beautifully clear pen drawings of the habitats and the organisms described. A lynx of p. 142 watches the reader so attentively that it was a bit unsettling!
Put this on you shelf and, more important, sling into your pack when and if you have the good fortune to visit these special places.
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Title: After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou ISBN: 0226668126 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Fresh Water by E. C. Pielou ISBN: 0226668150 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England by Tom Wessels, Brian D. Cohen, Ann H. Zwinger ISBN: 0881504203 Publisher: Countryman Pr Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Identifying Ornamental Conifers: The New Compact Study Guide and Identifier (Identifying Guide Series) by Richard Bird ISBN: 0785803246 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.98 |
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Title: A Natural History of Trees : of Eastern and Central North America by Donald Peattie, Paul H. Landacre ISBN: 0395581745 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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