- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Alfred A Knopf; 1 edition (1 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 067944677X
- ISBN-13: 978-0679446774
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 10.2 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 840,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida belongs in the home of every Florida resident and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more;
A complete overview of Florida's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns and night sky;
An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, beaches, forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others.
The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 14 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as 150 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals.
For everyone who lives or spends time in Florida, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida.
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more;
A complete overview of Florida's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns and night sky;
An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, beaches, forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others.
The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 14 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as 150 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals.
For everyone who lives or spends time in Florida, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
On my first morning in the USA I sat on a balcony in New Orleans dazed, jet lagged, drinking the PG Tips tea I'd brought with me, feeling lost.
I could see trees in bloom, gorgeous fluffy salmon-pink flowers against bright green leaves. Black birds with ridiculously long tails strutted on the parking lot below. Palms of all kinds and shapes flourished in the flowerbeds and roadsides. Ghostly white birds sat hunched at the roadside ditches; fork-tailed pale birds hovered like water-kestrels over park lakes; huge butterflies like airborne sweet-wrappers in a gale wafted past my face: "Did I really see that?"
Oh yes, I was lost. I wanted to know what all these wonderful new things were, caught up in the sun, the sounds of zydeco music, and the scent of boudin and gumbo.
My hosts, internet friends, had a few bird books that were useful, if awkward to navigate, and of course just.. birds. Sensing my childlike wonder in the New World, they ferried me to a large bookshop where I quickly found the awesome range of Audubon Field Guides.
Impressed? Oh you bet. The UK has nothing to compare with them. Okay so I came out with the Florida Field Guide [the New Orleans area has much the same flora & fauna, and we were headed to Florida in a few days] but from that moment, (probably to the perplexity of my hosts), my nose was buried in a cornucopia of crystal-clear colour photographs, accurate and concise descriptions and fascinating deviations into weather, the night sky, and the Florida natural parks. Heaven!
The National Audubon Field Guide to Florida was like an open sesame to everything I saw in the rest of my trip. All of Florida's most comon and spectacular Mushrooms, Fungi, Trees, Plants, Wildflowers, Fish, Marine Invertebrates, Shells, Molluscs, Insects, Butterflies, Moths, Spiders, Beetles, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals are crammed, jammed, like a Noah's-Ark-on-paper, within this compact, lightweight volume which would weigh nobody's backpack down. It was seldom out of my reach for the rest of the trip, it was my bible, showed me the wealth of Florida's abundant wildlife and enriched my experiences.
My copy has lived a bit: crinkled cover from stray splashes from my canoe trip (I painstakingly separated each and every page and only had 2 stuck together *phew*); thumb marks; and yes, a friend on every page - something I had seen and *enjoyed* seeing. It's treasured, and still comes out from the bookshelf occasionally as reference.
What a souvenir! I showed it around to family and friends, who were all impressed by its bijou excellence and quality of photographs, not to mention the brief, but precise, information. One friend, about to fly out to Florida to swim with mannatees, virtually begged me by email for its ISBN and details from Amazon to buy it.
I confess, a few things I did not find within its wealth of information, but to be able to identify bizarre, eerily beautiful Spider Lily we found on a riverbank - which captivated my Floridian host who had never seen anything like it - and to read about the alien Trumpet Pitchers, glowing "nuclear" green that we found in a swamp meadow, made it all worthwhile.
As someone who *loves* nature, this book was my most precious and useful souvenir.
Buy it, or forever be driven nuts by what you saw there.
Format:Hardcover
An excellent book for the un-initiated or returning traveller wishing to plan or find out about places and things to see whilst staying in florida.
The book features contact addresses and numbers particularly helpful when visiting far away or off the trail places. The traveller beware Florida is still wild off the highway and I'm not just talking about the critters!
It includes Geological and Metrological facts, Astrological maps, parks and places to visit (Wildlife, theme etc - indexed by region with colour pictures) Sea critters, Insects, Snakes and spiders.
All together a brilliant pictorial guide to what you may see or visit whilst in Florida.
The book features contact addresses and numbers particularly helpful when visiting far away or off the trail places. The traveller beware Florida is still wild off the highway and I'm not just talking about the critters!
It includes Geological and Metrological facts, Astrological maps, parks and places to visit (Wildlife, theme etc - indexed by region with colour pictures) Sea critters, Insects, Snakes and spiders.
All together a brilliant pictorial guide to what you may see or visit whilst in Florida.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Good for what it is.
19 May 2003
Format:Hardcover
This was one of the first reference books I picked up when I moved to Florida from up North, and it's been a valuable resource for identifying common flora and fauna in an unfamiliar region. Now that I AM familiar with the area, however, this guide isn't nearly as useful. Several times in the past month I have seen unfamiliar animals and insects (in my new affection for walking), and they haven't been included here.
The book includes the life that is COMMON to Florida, but if you have a desire to identify less common animals and plants, it's probably better to stick with the specialised field guides. Audubon usually does a better job than this, and make a few other books that are well put together and more inclusive than this one.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Mile wide and inch deep
28 July 2005
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the BEST nature guide I have found for Florida, but unfortunately that is not saying much. I have been spoiled by the wealth of naturalist and natural history books available for all different parts of the west, books which not only tell you how to ID a species, but which also give you enough information to feel like you know it afterwards.
I take young people on wilderness trips for a living, and enjoy sharing with them my love of nature. I especially enjoy introducing them to members of the natural community, neighbors they have had all their lives but probably have never taken time to become aquainted with. I grew up in the southeast, before heading west in search of adventure. Now I am back, working with at-risk and adjudicated youth, taking them on canoe paddles in old cypress swamps and along inter-coastal waterways. I normally find a variety of great books to take on trips for my kids to consult when they spot something new. But here in my old stomping grounds, this is the best I could come up with.
The National Audubon guides are great for covering a wide range of information, from weather to constellations to identifying plants and animals. But they won't tell you much of anything about those plants and animals. I know there are naturalists and writers in the south who can do better. Would love to find them (in print) someday soon.
I take young people on wilderness trips for a living, and enjoy sharing with them my love of nature. I especially enjoy introducing them to members of the natural community, neighbors they have had all their lives but probably have never taken time to become aquainted with. I grew up in the southeast, before heading west in search of adventure. Now I am back, working with at-risk and adjudicated youth, taking them on canoe paddles in old cypress swamps and along inter-coastal waterways. I normally find a variety of great books to take on trips for my kids to consult when they spot something new. But here in my old stomping grounds, this is the best I could come up with.
The National Audubon guides are great for covering a wide range of information, from weather to constellations to identifying plants and animals. But they won't tell you much of anything about those plants and animals. I know there are naturalists and writers in the south who can do better. Would love to find them (in print) someday soon.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Great book about stuff you will find in Florida!
26 Oct 1999
Format:Hardcover
This book is helpful because it contains descriptions of plants and animals, all of which you can find somewhere in Florida. This makes it easier to find out what you are looking at. It would be nice if it were divided by characteristics, at least more than how it is. I still like it a lot. Points out subtle differences among very similar plants and animals.
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