Alaska: Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide (Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides) [Paperback]

Dennis Paulson (Author), Les Beletsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 22, 2000 | Series: Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides

This title contains all the information needed to find, identify, and learn about Alaska's animal and plant life. It also includes descriptions of Alaska's most frequently visited parks and reserves.
This title contains color illustrations of more than 320 of Alaska's most common invertebrates, insects, amphibians, fishes, birds, and mammals. It contains information for identifying and locating these animals as well as their ecology, behavior, and conservation. The book also details the most common plants a traveler would encounter. Alaska is easy to carry, entertainingly written, and contains up-to-date information.

Key Features
* Identifying and location information on the most frequently seen animals;
* Up-do-date information on the ecology, behavior and conservation of the animals;
* Information on Alaska's habitats and on the most common plants you will encounter;
* Brief description of Alaska's most frequently visited parks and reserves

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It will certainly appeal to the more than one million ecotourists visiting Alaska each year. ...Given its format and content, this book, and others like it in the series, should be very popular with ecotourists and anyone looking for a basic and entertaining description of a particular region's fauna and flora."
--CURRENT BOOKS ON GARDENING AND BOTANY (December 2001)
"This is the book with all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Alaska's magnificient animal life. A fine addition to the traveling ecotourists."
--INDIANA AUDUBON QUARTERLY (August 2001)
"...this volume covers a huge and diverse area selectively, so that there are a handful of whales, dolphins, seals, and sea lions, and a variety of birds of all types. There are no reptiles, but there is a selection of trees, shrubs, and herbs, insects, amphibians, land mammals, and aquatic life from anemones to Giant Pacific Octopus to salt and freshwater fish. Birders headed for Alaska will use it, not for the birds (although there are quite a few) but for the generalist approach to wildlife."
--WINGING IT (June 2001)

From the Publisher

Praise for the Series "...the kind of guide than an ecotourist to the area really needs." (Adrian Barnett in New Scientist, July 1999)

"This is the perfect field book for the general tourist who has an interest in exploring tropical environs." (William R. Teska in Science Books And Films, June 1999)

"...few [guides] are written with the same authority and attention to detail... It could be the best (money) you spend all trip." (Nick Baker in BBC Wildlife, 1999)

"...this convenient field guide-sized book is absolutely packed with information for the visitor." (Steve Gantlett in Birding World, 1998)

"These are books I would certainly want to read before a visit." (Gordon Hamlett in Birdwatching, 1999)

"The illustrations are superb, the text simple and direct... If you go, take this book." (Birds, Summer 1999)

"The information on identification, distribution, ecology, behaviour, conservation, and habitats is enlivened by fascinating 'environmental close-ups'." (Bryan Bland in British Birds, September 1999)

"The text is accurate and well-researched." (Nick Smith in IBIS, 1999)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 442 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (December 22, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0125469608
• ISBN-13: 978-0125469609
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,895,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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