A Guide to Field Guides: Identifying the Natural History of North America

by Diane Schmidt

Field guides are often difficult to identify, since there is no specific subject heading for them and titles can be unreliable indicators of format. Yet these popular scientific tools (designed to assist amateurs in identifying plants, animals, and objects) are also widely used by scientists, naturalists, foresters, wildlife managers, and other professionals and most libraries contain numerous field guides in their collections. Focusing on the North...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563087073
• ISBN13: 9781563087073
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"