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Authors: Roger Conant, Joseph T. Collins
Creators: Isabelle Hunt Conant (artist), Tom R. Johnson (artist), Suzanne L. Collins (photographer)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book

List Price: $21.00
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars(20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8761

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.5 x 1.4

ISBN: 0395904528
Dewey Decimal Number: 597.9097
UPC: 046442904520
EAN: 9780395904527
ASIN: 0395904528

Publication Date: May 15, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
This newly designed field guides features detailed descriptions of 595 species and subspecies. The 656 full-color illustrations and 384 drawings show key details for accurate identification. More than 100 color photographs and 333 color photographs and 333 color distribution maps accompany the species descriptions.


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5 out of 5 stars herper's bible   December 28, 2008
By far the best guide for the amateur or professional. No other guide can come close to this one. No fluff, no wasted space. It's been around since 1958 - frequently updated and appended. I can't count how many copies I've acquired over the years.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent for identification of reptiles and amphibians   June 5, 2008
I live in North Carolina and I have been able to identify all the snakes, lizards, turtles, and frogs that I have found using this book. Good descriptions and photos to help you tell the difference between different species.


3 out of 5 stars Clear plates with good, yet badly printed pictures, and too little information on the species' biology   April 4, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book features clear plates with apparently well painted views of probably all the species of amphibians and reptiles occuring in Canada and the USA east of the Rocky Mountains, apparently also including those of Puerto Rico and introduced ones. Unfortunately, the plates of the third edition from 1998 are printed badly, with the colour dots not completely blurring in front of the reader's eye, and the pictures are a little tiny anyway. On the page opposing the plates are the common and scientific names given, as well as some important details of their appearance. Many species are represented with several images (e.g. from the side, from below; adults, juveniles), but this would probably be warranted for even more species.br /The species accounts are, however, usually much too short, giving almost no detail about biology and life history of the species. Among them are, however, some colour photographs, whose printing resolution is usually also somewhat too bad, though.br /The range maps are in colour and show the different subspecies in different shades, yet they are also somewhat confusing, because water bodies like the sea or the great lakes are not shaded differently from the land, so that their borders look like the state borders, and because the range borders have also be drawn in black (maybe for copying?).br /Laudable is the existence of a general section about amphibians and reptiles and their catching, handling and captive care. This section would be worth expanding, though.br /The third printing (1998) is/was, as already stated, not very good because of its low colour resolution and its maybe somewhat too small size, and it is/was bind only as paperback with relatively thick pages throughout. br /


5 out of 5 stars Excellent gift for a friend   March 18, 2008
Thank you for your timely shipping of this brand new book. I ordered it for a friend who is looking forward to getting it soon.


5 out of 5 stars Great guide   February 13, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have had this book for several years and absolutly love it. Not only is it nicely informative, it holds up well in the feild. I can not begin to count the number of times I have slipped (I generally keep it tucked in my waist band) in creeks on outings. After years of abuse, my cover is a worn, spine wrinkled and paged stained, but it's still solidly bound.


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