Mammals: A Guide to Familiar American Species
by Herbert Spencer Zim (Author), Donald F. Hoffmeister (Author)
Golden Guides (Nature)
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Learn about many different kinds of mammals while building your science vocabulary. Includes vocabulary quizzes and answer key.Tags
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As kids back in the 1950s and 1960s, we had all the major Golden Nature guides of Herbert Zim fame. We would sometimes take them along on family vacations "out west" to help us identify creatures we encountered. I do not recall how much use this particular Mammals guide received. However, like the other such Guides, it has beautiful, colored illustrations, useful notes on natural history, and small maps to show geographical distributions. It's a bit hard to part with, but maybe someone else may find a use for it.
A small pocket guide that gives the basic information about many of the mammal species of North America. It is an older book so some of the information is dated but works as a great introduction to mammals for kids and adults. Still a good field good for finding a general idea of what type of mammal you saw.
Very basic. It is geared towards kids, and as a kid, I probably pored over this one.
Love these just for the illustrations!
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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
- Mammals: A Guide to Familiar American Species
- Original publication date
- 1955
- Important places
- USA
- Original language
- English
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