A Natural History of California (California Natural History Guides) - Hardcover

Schoenherr, Allan A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520069218 ISBN 13: 9780520069213

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book includes a description of organisms, rocks, and the environment and an attempt to explain what factors through time created what we see today. The facts behind the concepts that are stressed in this book have been drawn from ecology, zoology, botany, biogeography, climatology, paleontology, and geology.

From the Inside Flap:

"You want to own this book. Perhaps the most impressive thing about this book is the number of illustrations, most of them photographs taken by the author. This guy knows of what he speaks!"—George M. Clark, California Wilderness Coalition

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520069218
• ISBN 13: 9780520069213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 772