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(The Amateur Naturalist
By Nick Baker. This is a fascinating guide to exploring nature! The author clearly loves the natural world, and invites you to join him in experiencing its wonders. It's full of practical advice, scientific information, projects, and plenty of illustrations and great close-up photos of nature from the field. The style is engaging, conversational, and personal. Just a few of the topics covered are how to pick out field equipment, bird watching, viewing mammals, tracking, trapping animals for catch and release, bats, marine mammals, reptiles and amphibians, making a frog farm, fish, invertebrates, insects, plants, and photosynthesis.
Use this book as a field guide, a basis for a year-long life science course, or
just fun nature reading. Hardback. Ages 13 & up. 288 pp. $30 list.
