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| Author: NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Brand: Liberty Mountain
List Price: $19.95
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Seller: Cricket's Suitcase
Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 10249
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Imitation Leather
Edition: Chanticleer Press Ed
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Pages: 716
Number Of Items: 1
Size: Trees-Eastern
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0394507606
Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16097
EAN: 9780394507606
ASIN: 0394507606
Publication Date: May 12, 1980
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Book is in very good condition for the exception of water damage on the bottom half of the book. Cover is the one with the fall leaves. Fast shipping.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern) February 4, 2007
Timothy J. Bentz (Pittsburgh, PA)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Product received in great condition and very useful.
Great Book December 14, 2006
J. Mazur (Buffalo, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Best book on trees I have ever bought! The info and pictures detail every aspect that you need to know. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to identify trees!
Excellent guide November 9, 2006
Steven E. Geyer (Halifax, PA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My daughter had to do an extensive leaf collection for school. This guide was the resource we needed. The material we received from her school didn't come close to the detail found in this book.
Getting to know your friends November 4, 2006
Martin H. Dickinson (Washington, D.C.)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Trees thrive all around us; but how much do we know about them? If you want to learn about your best friends and neighbors in a hurry, Elbert Little's field guide is a good way. I lived with a Black Walnut for 23 years before realizing my tall friend is the scarcest and most coveted of native hardwoods and was especially terrific for gunstocks. And I didn't know my two neighborly Common Persimmons were having a lovely relationship with one another (they must in order to produce the fruit), nor that their name was derived from the Algonquin.
If you'd like to identify a stranger, Little's organization by thumb tabs based on leaf shape makes it easy to find the section where your tree is pictured with its leaves and bark in a full color photo. He also provides separate sections showing us flowers and fruit. You'll be charmed by an especially brilliant section showing red, orange, brown and gold autumn leaves.
Who but a dendrologist, or tree identification specialist, would know so well how to share all this knowledge of trees? And Elbert Little is not just any dendrologist, mind you, but the former Chief Dendrologist of the U.S. Forest Service.
What is a tree, really? According to Little, it's a "woody plant with an erect perennial trunk at least 3 inches in diameter at breast height, and definitely formed crown of foliage, and a height of at least 13 feet." That's good to know.
If you love words (as I do), you're lucky to get a glossary with "lanceolate," "nutlet," "pith," "sepal," "stamen," and "whorled" fully explained. Besides a wealth of full color photos, the guide includes 400 pages of prose narratives and black and white diagrams describing the 315 native trees of the eastern two thirds of the continent arranged by family, as well as the common naturalized or introduced trees you'd be likely to run into in parks or cities.
Here's a recommendation for you: walk in the woods for love of trees.
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day," Thoreau tells us, "he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
The danger of being regarded as a loafer is worth risking. Let this book be your companion. For all that's inside, it's amazingly small: 7.5" x 4" by 1" deep, with a soft laminated cover--perfect to fit in a jacket or backpack pocket.
It's also great for lying on the ground and placing as a pillow under your head. To look up at the trees.
Great Book !!! November 3, 2006
Goldie C. Alexander (Clarkston, WA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
These Audubon books are the best ones for learning about the subject matter, ie: trees. Colored pictures are a MUST and these books have pictures that allow you to identify your tree easily. I have purchased a number of them over the years and will do so in the future.
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