North american wildlife: mammals, reptiles, amphibians field guide (North American Wildlife Field Guides) [Paperback]

Editors of Reader's Digest (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 4, 1998 | Series: North American Wildlife Field Guides

Detailed, specially drawn full-color illustrations of 230 species of mammals, 300 reptiles, and 200 amphibians in natural, realistic settings. At-a-glance identification capsules pinpoint behavior patterns, field characteristics, coloring, habitat, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Readers Digest (May 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762100354
• ISBN-13: 978-0762100354
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #887,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Zoology > Amphibians

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on wildlife, wildflowers, plants and trees., July 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Reader's Digest North American Wildlife (Hardcover)

This is the best resource book I have found on the subject matter. All illustrations are done beautifully in color. The following are a few of the specific identification aids used: check marks for physical feature identifiers, symbols identifing habitat, maps displaying geographic location. The book is indexed by common and scientific names, is compact, easy to handle, an excellent reference tool and is good for leisure reading

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If I could only keep one field guide with me, this would be IT...., July 4, 2007

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Platanthera102 "Platantheralady" (Forest Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reader's Digest North American Wildlife (Hardcover)

My dad would occasionally bring me a book or two, saying "Kathy, I think you would enjoy this." He's been gone for 21 years now, and I have had to reglue sections of pages back onto the spine with PVA glue, but this little book remains the most valuable of all my huge collection of field guides. It has so many entries, and indexed by both common and scientific names; most importantly, the listings for each grouping are organized in a logical way, clustering similar species together so that you can easily find what you are looking for. One of my big gripes about some otherwise-helpful field guides is that there seems to be so little logic in their organization. This one is my favorite because it's not exhaustingly bulky. but so well-researched, that most of what you are likely to come across in your field wanderings will be found here - or you will at least have clues to locating it in a more detailed field guide in your library. They have illustrations of 34 native orchids, again, not comprehensive, but such a good representative sampling of the most-frequently found, and so well and carefully illustrated, that, again, I can give my full recommendation for this fine book. Thanks, Dad! : )

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best facts and pictures of any Wildlife book published., February 19, 1998

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GAIL HART ([e-mail]) (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reader's Digest North American Wildlife (Hardcover)

This book has the best fact-filled text and color portraits of any I have read. It includes over 2,000 plants and animals of all types. It is easy to read and research because each section is color tabed. If you wont to exolore Wildlife you need this Book!!