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National Geographic Pocket Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of North America

Catherine Herbert Howell

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National Geographic Society
15 April 2015
This basic beginner's field guide to our favorite animals that slither and swim is the latest in the growing National Geographic Pocket Guide series. This new guide to reptiles & amphibians combines spot-on descriptive information and key facts in a handy, colorful, easy-to-reference volume. Sure to become as familiar as Audubon and Peterson guides and more robust than any other beginning field guides, this book includes selected photography and newly commissioned art and graphics to illustrate and identify each species from every angle. Beautifully designed and illustrated, with logical organization and bulleted information, these pocket guides are useful in the field or as in-home references.

This basic beginner's field guide to our favorite animals that slither and swim is the latest in the growing National Geographic Pocket Guide series. Spot-on descriptive information and key facts about reptiles and amphibians are conveyed in a handy, colorful, easy-to-reference volume. More robust than any other beginning field guides, this book includes selected photography and newly commissioned art and graphics to illustrate and identify each species from every angle. With logical organization and bulleted information, this pocket guide is useful in the field or as in-home reference, for beginners, families, and new nature lovers alike.

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Imprint:   National Geographic Society
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 184mm,  Width: 108mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   210g
ISBN:   9781426214769
ISBN 10:   1426214766
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

CATHERINE HERBERT HOWELL, a former National Geographic staff member, has written extensively on natural history. She explored the relationships between people and plants in Flora Mirabilis- How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty and covered the importance of birds in culture in the National Geographic Bird Watcher's Bible. Howell serves as a master naturalist volunteer in Arlington, Virginia. JARED TRAVNICEK is medical illustrator with an MA in Medical and Biological illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is based in Indianapolis, IN, where he works as a neurosurgical illustrator.

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