Trees: A Guide to Familiar American Trees
by Herbert Spencer Zim, Alexander C. Martin
Golden Nature Guides (Nature)
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Pictures of 140 common trees, identifying their leaves, fruit, form, range, and uses.Tags
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I liked it - great introduction for the most common trees in the U.S. Recommended for anyone interested in identifying trees in your neighborhood and learning how they're useful. It's also the right size to stick in your pocket if you want to.
I love these kinds of guide books. Sure, they don't show all the species of a given area, but they have great illustrations that inspire a kid--heck, an adult--to learn the general category before embarking on the intimidating journey of identifying more specific regional specimens. In my case today, I find it encouraging for continuing to learning botanical illustration and have a few "cheat sheets" to study some of the most common species in the area I moved to, which is across the continent from where I used to live.
Pictures of 140 common trees, identifying their leaves, fruit, form, range, and uses.
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Herbert S. Zim was born in 1909 in New York City. He was a naturalist, author, editor and also known as the fonder and editor in chief of the Golden Guides series of nature books. Zim wrote or edited more than one hundred scientific books, and in a thirty-year career teaching in the public schools introduced laboratory instruction into elementary show more school science. He is best known as the founder in 1945, of the Golden Guides, pocket-size introductions for children to such subjects as fossils, zoology, microscopy, rocks and minerals, codes and secret writings, trees, wildflowers, dinosaurs, navigation and more. He was the sole or co-author for many of the books, which were valued for their clarity, accuracy and attractive presentation helped by the illustrations of James Gordon Irving. He continued to work on the Golden Guides series until Alzheimer's disease forced him to slow down in the 1990s. He died in 1994 at Plantation Key, Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Trees: A Guide to Familiar American Trees
- Important places
- North America
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Reference, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 582.160973 — Natural sciences & mathematics Plants (Botany) Plants noted for specific vegetative characteristics and flowers Herbaceous and woody plants, plants noted for their flowers Trees History, geographic treatment, biography North America
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- QK482 .Z55 — Science Botany Botany Spermatophyta. Phanerogams
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- Languages
- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
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- 1
- ASINs
- 27
