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Field Notes on Science & Nature
by Canfield, Michael R
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0674057570
- ISBN 13
- 9780674057579
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About This Item
Cambridge / London: Harvard University Press, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very clean first edition hardcover in clean unchipped dust jacket. Green paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, dark brown lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Light green endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with sketches, drawing, images of hand-written notes. 297 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A book which allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions. Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, botany and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures..
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033885
- Title
- Field Notes on Science & Nature
- Author
- Canfield, Michael R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0674057570
- ISBN 13
- 9780674057579
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge / London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- natural history, field notes, nature, naturalists, first edition, Michael R. Canfield, ornithology, ecology, entomology, botany, animal behavior
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Natural HIstory;
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