Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities - Hardcover

Blevins, David; Schafale, Michael P.

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9780807834671: Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 080783467X ISBN 13: 9780807834671
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Synopsis

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state’s natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina’s interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps, savannas, ponds, pocosins, and flatrocks, David Blevins and Michael Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

Wild North Carolina introduces the full range of the state’s diverse natural communities, each brought to life with compelling accounts of their significance and meaning, arresting photographs featuring broad vistas and close-ups, and details on where to go to experience them first hand. Blevins and Schafale provide nature enthusiasts of all levels with the insights they need to value the state’s natural diversity, highlighting the reasons plants and animals are found where they are, as well as the challenges of conserving these special places.

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About the Authors

David Blevins is a nature photographer and forest ecologist whose other books include North Carolina’s Barrier Islands

Michael P. Schafale is a community ecologist for the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program.

From the Back Cover

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, this book provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. Blevins and Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

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Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, this book provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. Blevins and Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
080783467X
ISBN 13 
9780807834671
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
184
Rating
  • 4.12 out of 5 stars
    16 ratings by Goodreads

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