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With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title offers key facts about 160 of the most common... Full description
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With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title offers key facts about 160 of the most common wildflowers and weeds, coast to coast, including Canada and Alaska. To help with identification, each of the 160 entries has both a color photograph showing the plant in context and a color illustration showing the blossom close-up. This book is the perfect starting point for anyone, young or old, interested in learning how to identify wildflowers. |
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Item Description: |
At head of title: National Geographic. |
Physical Description: |
182 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 19 cm |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (page 175) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781426212819 142621281X |
Author Notes: |
Illustrator FERNANDO G. BAPTISTA graduated in Fine Arts from Pais Vasco in Spain. He worked as a graphic artist and museum exhibit creator, taught infographics at the University of Navarra, and now works as an illustrator for National Geographic magazine. Baptista has won more than 125 international awards and was named one of the five most influential infographic artists of the last 20 years. Illustrator JENNY WANG was trained in medical and biological illustration at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Her areas of focus include scientific illustration, biomedical visualization, and information design. |