Pocket Guide to Hawaii's Trees and Shrubs

By: Pratt, H. Douglas

Book Overview

A Pocket Guide to Hawaii's Trees and Shrubs is the most complete guide available to both Hawaii's native and naturalized trees, shrubs, and larger vines in the Hawaiian Islands. Included are photos of all the species most likely to be encountered by residents and visitors alike. Small enough for a backpack, but complete enough to e a valuable bookshelf reference, this book is the perfect addition to any naturalist's library. Although the photographs will be valuable to botanists, the text is written for the amateur. This guidebook provides a visual approach to identification, emphasizing obvious field characters that can be seen without resorting to a hand-lens. The plants are arranged by habitat so that the reader will gain a thorough overview of Hawaiian ecology and an appreciation for the uniqueness of these beautiful islands. No naturalist and nature lover in Hawaii should be without this handy reference volume.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566472199
• ISBN13: 9781566472197
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Mutual Publishing
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Neat pocket guide

This is just what the title promises: a pocket guide. As such it is high class, printed on glossy paper and profusely illustrated with high quality color pictures taken in the field. It takes the reader through the several vegetation zones of Hawai'i and presents the noteworthy plants, category by category. I can well imagine that this booklet will give visitors to Hawai'i much pleasure.I am not so sure about this "reading beforehand" the other reviewer mentions: this will be a pretty brief read. Also too concise to serve as a field guide, with pictures that are awfully small. It really is a pocket guide only, but as such it is a gem.

The guide you should have

A truly superb guidebook; it is the one you should have to make sense of the profusion of exotic flora on the Islands. Other books show small selections of the trees and shrubs, with the result that the particular one in front of you is often omitted. Pratt has solved the problem for us; his book is comprehensive, beautiful, and easy to use. If you are planning a trip to the Islands, I recommend getting this book ahead of time. There is so much worth appreciating, it is time well spent getting oriented ahead of time. This guide is sure to become a classic.