| View Larger Image | A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife | Hardcoverby Richard Sale (Author), Richard Sale (Photographer), Per Michelsen (Photographer)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Firefly Books | | Page Count: | 400 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 20, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 182,936nd |
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Product Description
The most comprehensive field guide to Arctic wildlife. This is the ideal guidebook to the wildlife of the Arctic, which is undergoing such a perilous change. Polar expert Richard Sale describes the ecological and human dynamics of the Arctic as a whole, with detailed information about the peoples of the region and their history. He also discusses the future for the region and its wildlife, severely threatened by both climatic change and the overwhelming pollution created by humankind. Following sections on Arctic geology, geography, speciation and biogeography, the book provides extensive field coverage of all the region's mammals and birds. In-depth information on each species includes notes on identification, size, voice, distribution, diet, breeding, taxonomy and more. A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife is packed with stunning photographs and features range maps of the entire circumpolar ranges -- including oceans and seas -- of the various polar creatures. This beautifully illustrated and authoritative book will provide a renewed understanding of the Arctic and its unique challenges. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 6 reviews)
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Only birds and mammals, but all of them by Marissink Marcus  4 Stars
October 23, 2009
This is a very good book, but some of the reviews are exaggerating a bit. First of all, there are no "thousands" of species in this book (nor in the Arctic), but "only" 213 birds and 77 mammals. Second, there are no fishes (whales and dolphins are mammals), nor plants.
The reasons why I do not give this book five stars:
- The plates that help to identify the animals are spread throughout the book, not in direct connection to the description, nor together in the middle or at the back. That makes it a bit hard to find them.
- Some of the photos are not perfect (and this is even more striking given the overall quality of the other photos).
- The descriptions of the distributions are sometimes incomplete, at least outside the Arctic region.
- It would have been nice if Northern Scandinavia had been included - to me, it's Arctic enough!
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Truly complete by Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States)  5 Stars
March 10, 2009
This is a thick, serious, and irreproachable tome on the wildlife of the Arctic. Fish, birds, mammals... Everything that you'd need in a reference source. Probably much too heavy for a field guide, but complete for reference back on the boat.
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Excellent wildlife resource for the Arctic. by Chuck (Sebastopol, CA USA) 5 Stars
August 06, 2008
Very good resource for arctic wildlife. Hardbound and a little heavy for use as a field guide, but very good if you do not have to pack it around all the time.
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Truely complete by R. Stam (Rotterdam, Netherlands) 5 Stars
January 01, 2008
This book is one of the best wildlife guides I have ever seen and by far the best wildlife guide of the arctic regions. I can recommand this book to anyone going (or living) there. The book starts with about 50 pages of introduction. In this part of the book different aspects of the region are described, such as geology, climate and a history of humans in the arctic. After that it really starts: some 300 pages filled with information of all kind of birds followed by another 100 pages about arctic mammals. Altogether this is a very complete, well illustrated guidebook. A "must have" for everyone interested in arctic wildlife!
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incredible resource by M. Testani (Philadelphia, PA) 5 Stars
November 27, 2007
This book is so incredibly in-depth on arctic species - from thousands of birds, fish, mammals, etc. There are great photographs as well as scientific illustrations for almost every species mentioned.
There is also a great exploration guide for each species - both as an introduction to the type of animal and where they predominate and also by specific species within those categories. The book then provides information on specific environmental habitat for that breed, their food sources, how they feed (methods), reproduction, how they live (where they sleep), specific sizes, confusion with near species, how they communicate etc.
The beginning of the book also goes into great detail about the different types of arctic habitat, seasonal changes and the delicate ecosystems as well as environmental changes and threats due to global warming and pollution. The text is scientific, so it sometimes takes a little reading to be able to draw parallels between species and changes in environment (not as direct as say, Greenpeace would be.) But definitely a must have for an encyclopedic library on Arctic wildlife.
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