From rocky shores to sandy beaches, everything you might want to know about the shore is covered in this beautifully illustrated, authoritative guide to the seashore from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf and Caribbean. 96-page color insert. Size A. 20,000 print.
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Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.
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This review is from: Southeastern & Caribbean Seashores (Paperback)
Where Kaplan's "Coral Reefs" manages to take a difficult field guide topic and conquer it, "Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores" Takes an impossible task and muddles it. I don't know what the people at Peterson's Field Guides was thinking! The topic is far to broad to include in one book, and Kaplan seems to try and make it broader. He includes coral reefs and things distinctly NOT on the shore as well as including topics already in other field guides. I do NOT want to belittle Kaplan (whom I enjoy) or Peterson's (who I think makes the best mass consumption field guides available) but unless you really need it, I would stay away from this book. It does win points for its illustrations and Kaplans knowledge and writing style.
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Don't Leave Home Without It!,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores, Vol. 1: Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Florida, and the Caribbean (Hardcover)
I have taken Kaplan's field guide to seashores to Florida Keys, the Bahamas, the USVI, The BVI, Bonaire, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Curacao, and have found the book to be indispensible. No matter which island, each seashore seemed familiar, and with a little judicious reading beforehand,I understood whatever natural phenomena I saw, from snorkelling in the shallows to walking the rocky shore to crawling around the red mangrove roots. I would no sooner leave this field guide home when I go to the Carribbean or Florida, than leave home my Michelin Guide to Europe when I go there. I recommend the Field Guide to Seashores to all nature lovers and snorkelers who want to make the best of their trip to the the Caribbean or Florida.
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A great pocket guide to Caribbean Seashores,
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This review is from: Southeastern & Caribbean Seashores (Paperback)
This is an ideal book for beachcombers with an interest in natural history or for marine biology students on a Caribbean field trip. It is a bit more than your standard identification guide as it has substantial sections of natural history. Kaplan was the founder and director of the Hofstra University Marine Lab for many years and this book reflects his decades of fisled experience and enthusiasm for teaching marine biology in the field.
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aboral arm plates, littoral hedge, radial shields, peltate tentacles, shoreside plants, star barnacles, interdune meadows, feeding zooids, fecal casts, berm crest, swash zone, oral disk, rock snail, common clam, aboral surface, genital slits, arm spines, horn snail, coastal thickets, shrub zone, body whorl, tube feet, dune community, brittle stars, upper intertidal zone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Mangrove, Gulf of Mexico, Blue Crab, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, Ghost Shrimp, Mud Fiddler, Sea Grape, West Indies, Long-spined Black Urchin, Elkhorn Coral, Florida Keys, South Carolina, Cape Cod, Needle Rush, Black Mangrove, Red Rock Urchin, Great Land Crab, Order Nudibranchia, West Indian Top Snail, Oyster Drill, Parchment Worm, Puerto Rico, Scorched Mussel, Slipper Snail New!
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aboral arm plates, littoral hedge, radial shields, peltate tentacles, shoreside plants, star barnacles, interdune meadows, feeding zooids, fecal casts, berm crest, swash zone, oral disk, rock snail, common clam, aboral surface, genital slits, arm spines, horn snail, coastal thickets, shrub zone, body whorl, tube feet, dune community, brittle stars, upper intertidal zone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Mangrove, Gulf of Mexico, Blue Crab, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, Ghost Shrimp, Mud Fiddler, Sea Grape, West Indies, Long-spined Black Urchin, Elkhorn Coral, Florida Keys, South Carolina, Cape Cod, Needle Rush, Black Mangrove, Red Rock Urchin, Great Land Crab, Order Nudibranchia, West Indian Top Snail, Oyster Drill, Parchment Worm, Puerto Rico, Scorched Mussel, Slipper Snail New!
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- Coral Reefs (Lerner Natural Science Book) by Sylvia A. Johnson in Front Matter
- A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies (Peterson Field Guide) by James Bond in Back Matter
- Underwater Wilderness by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- Marine Algae of the Eastern Tropical and Subtropical Coasts of the Americas by William Randolph Taylor in Back Matter
- Caribbean Reef Fishes (3rd Edition Revised) by John E. Randall in Back Matter
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- Living with the Puerto Rico Shore (Living with the Shore) by David M. Bush in Back Matter
- Living with the South Carolina Coast (Living with the Shore) by Gered Lennon in Back Matter
- The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand (Living with the Shore) by Deborah F. Pilkey in Back Matter
- Living on the Edge of the Gulf: The West Florida and Alabama Coast (Living with the Shore) by David M. Bush in Back Matter
- Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches: Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West (Living with the Shore) by David M. Bush in Back Matter
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