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Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America: Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides (R))
written by Fiona Reid
Studio : Houghton Mifflin
by Houghton Mifflin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Released : 2006-11-15
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780395935965
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 6 reviews)
List Price : $20.00
Our Price : $12.85
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Product Description |
The Peterson Field Guide Series (R)
Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute
America's Best-Selling Field Guides
THE PETERSON IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Roger Tory Peterson's unique system shows exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another.
EASE OF USE
Peterson Field Guides are designed to work in the field, and every illustration, every word, is directed to that end.
THE AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS
For each Field Guide, an author with expertise in the subject and an experienced artist work closely with the editors to ensure that both text and illustrations are accurate.
A Field Guide to Mammals of North America
The most comprehensive, in-depth, and current guide to North American mammals, this book covers all the mammals found in North America north of Mexico, including those that live in near-shore waters. The only guide to include paintings and photographs of the animals as well as photographs of mammal skulls, it has 80 color plates, plus 46 additional color illustrations and black-and-white drawings, nearly 400 range maps, and more than 100 color photographs. |
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Impractical for field use |
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I bought Mammals field guide 4th ed. to upgrade from my 3rd. ed. The 4th ed. has 80 plates while the 3rd ed. has only 32 plates. The 4th ed. also has much more text under individual species and genera descriptions. With having more plates and text the 4th ed. is about three times the weight of the previous 3rd ed. The increase of weight makes The Field Guide to Mammals 4th ed. impractical for use in the field. Which is why I give this book 4.5 stars. |
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A wonderful guide |
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A really complete,exact and interesting guide to the observation of the North American Mammals.Very nice. |
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Great Guide |
A thorough guide to North American animals. Lot's of color plates and informative. It even covers animals in their stages like a fox in winter and midsummer and how their coats change color.
To put it simply you won't be disappointed. |
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Top notch mammal guide |
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This new guide is hands down the best mammal guide for North America currently available. An impressive volume and effort by the author. The artwork is superb, the photography crisp, and the phylogeny and other science accurate and up to date. |
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The Best Holiday Present in Thirty Years |
Fiona Reid has created a tour-de-force in The new Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America, the first update of the Peterson series on mammals in thirty years. This is the best Peterson Field guide ever, the ideal gift or stocking stuffer and a must have for anyone who loves environment, natural history, the outdoors and wildlife, from your budding naturalist eight-year old to your birder grandmother in Wisconsin.
The new guide combines all the best features of recent ground-breaking field guides in a completely new book. It is both encyclopeadic and accessible, beautiful to hold in the hand and, as has always been the case with the Peterson series, the perfect size to take to the field. It will also look very good on your window sill and be handy next time that bear or ermine comes to the feeder.
A revision was of Peterson's Mammal Guide was long overdue and Fiona Reid has gone about it masterfully. In comparing the new and the old guide, one need only look at the new paintings to realize how much we needed this brand new treatment of North American mammals and to see how beautiful a book this is. Our knowledge has advanced tremendously, even for better known groups such as the carnivores; but it is when you spend some time with groups such as the bats and the chipmunks that you begin to realize just how far we have come since the last edition in our understanding of the mammalian diversity we see around us. Brilliant author-biologist-artist Fiona Reid has captured the traditional basics of a field guide with astounding plates and just the right amount of detail on ranges, biology, morphology, and even environmental threats.
This is the new gold-standard of field guides.
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