Handbook of Nature Study, Anna Botsford Comstock
"A matchless handbook for decades, this classic has
been the natural history bible for countless teachers and others who
seek information about their natural environment...Nature-study, as
used in this handbook, encompasses all living things except humans,
as well as all nonliving things such as rocks and minerals, the
heavens, and weather. Of the living things described, most are
common in the northeastern states.... Missing from the book are only
the plants and animals indigenous to the sea; this is a book about
land organisms-- the one most of us see every day. The reissue
of Comstock's [book] is most welcome. You need only open its
covers and turn to almost any page to be lost in an adventure with
nature-- the nature that is closest to you and an adventure that is
as interesting as a safari to wildest Africa."
--Verne N. Rockcastle, from the Forward.
Paper cover, 912 pages, 6 x 9 ¼,
b&w illustrations.
0-8014-9384-6
Handbook of Nature Study $26.00
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