| Life in the Chesapeake Bay Contributor(s): Lippson, Alice Jane (Author), Lippson, Robert L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801883385 ISBN-13: 9780801883385 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research. This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers -- year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Marine Life - Nature | Plants - General - Nature | Ecology |
| Dewey: 577.786 |
| LCCN: 2005055247 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.78" W x 8.72" (1.58 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Topical - Ecology - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research. This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers--year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen. |
