Florida's living beaches a guide for the curious beachcomber reviews

Florida’s Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber by Blair Witherington (Author). Florida has 1200 miles of coastline, virtually 700 miles of which are sandy beaches. Exploring along those beaches presents encounters with myriads of vegetation, animals, minerals, and artificial objects all are covered in this comprehensive information with descriptive accounts of 822 items, 983 color pictures, and 431 maps. Starting with the premise that beaches are themselves alive, this information to the pure history of Florida beaches heralds the living issues and metaphorical life close to, on, and throughout the state’s sandy margins. It is organized into Seashore Features, Beach Animals, Seashore Vegetation, Beach Minerals, and Hand of Man. In addition to being an identification guide, the guide reveals much of the surprise and a thriller between dune and sea along Florida s lengthy coastline.

It is a comprehensive identification information, but it is much more. Unlike most identification guides, it’s potential to sit down and skim this guide for pleasure.

There are fantastic photographic illustrations, usually with more than one image for example a subject. The textual content is obvious and concise however not too concise. On each matter they’ve a characteristic known as ” Did you Know”. This is a paragraph about some odd reality in regards to the subject. For example, “Laughing Gulls are the seashore bird most probable to steal meals out of your hand…”

This may be the one discipline guide I will convey to me on future trips to the seashores in Florida.

I bought this book for our trip to the seashore as a useful resource for the family. Each one that appeared and used this ebook LOVED it. In the few weeks we now have had it, our daughter has gone back to this book time and time again. Also a number of requested the place we got the book — this e-book might be their next birthday or Christmas book! Great images and detailed rationalization about the whole lot BEACH.

Florida’s Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber

Blair Witherington (Author)

336 pages

Pineapple Press; 1st edition (April 2, 2007)

More details about this books.