Comprehensive compendium of facts about dolphins, sea snails, sponges, starfish, fishes, shore birds, many other creatures of the strand. Detailed coverage of appearance, breeding, growth, feeding, much more. 167 drawings. 16 page photo-section. 1,106 questions and answers.
The Sonoran Desert by Day and Night by Dot Barlowe Twenty-nine lifelike, ready-to-color illustrations of tiny lizards, sleeping coyotes, an antelope jack rabbit, a beavertail cactus, turkey vulture, and a treelike saguaro cactus, among others. Captions.
Collecting and Preserving Plants by Ruth B. (Alford) MacFarlane Expert, hands-on guide to collecting for scientific, craft, and ornamental purposes. Identification, mounting, display, many other aspects.
Eric Sloane's Book of Storms: Hurricanes, Twisters and Squalls by Eric Sloane With his conversational style and more than 100 original illustrations, the popular author and artist explains "elementary meteorology so clearly that the completely uninformed can gain an immediate understanding." — San Francisco Chronicle.
How Plants Get Their Names by Liberty Hyde Bailey With "knowledge, authority, charm and eloquence," author explains reasons for scientific nomenclature, history of terms, components, other helpful material.
