Everglades (Our Wild World) - Softcover

Lynch, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559719710 ISBN 13: 9781559719711

Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing LLC, 2007

Synopsis

This is our fourth title in our highly-praised Our Wild World: Ecosystems series. Once again, author/ photographer Wayne Lynch takes readers on a personal journey through a treasured North American ecosystem. Amazing photography, first-person anecdotes, and tons of factual information on the animals, plants, climate and landscape come together to give a complete picture of the ecosystem in action. Subjects cover the wide diversity of living things in this habitat from strangler fig trees and bromeliad plants to armadillos and dozens of water birds. And of course gators! These gorgeous books are a feast for both the eyes and mind.

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From Booklist

Suitable for both classroom use and independent research, this installment in the Our Wild World series provides an up-close look at the fascinating flora and fauna of the world-famous Everglades. Concise chapters examine the three surprisingly diverse habitats of this unique ecosystem—saw grass marshes, deep sloughs and gator holes, and tree islands—and the climate conditions that shape this wet, steamy world. Lynch, a nature writer, who took many of the photographs here, smoothly pairs engaging prose with numerous color photographs that capture the beauty of the region in both sweeping panorama and close-up detail. Alligators, of course, play a starring role here, but to his credit, Lynch infuses his accounts of other Everglades life-forms with equal allure. Inset boxes extend the main narrative, often highlighting the ways humans threaten the delicate balance of this ecosystem. The concluding list of further resources, may be too brief to fully satisfy the curiosity this polished, informative volume is likely to elicit. McKulski, Kristen

Edition details

• Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559719710
• ISBN 13: 9781559719711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64