The Outer Lands - A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island

This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this peninsula and chain of islands along our New England coast.

A propos de l'auteur

Dorothy Sterling (1913-2008) was a native New Yorker who lived for many years on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Long Island. She was a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit.

Résumé

Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for 200 million years? That mussels "spin" long anchor lines and climb steep slopes with them? Do you know what a "Beetlebung" tree is?

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Dorothy Sterling
• Collaboration: Winifred Lubell (Illustrations)
• Edition: W. W. Norton & Company
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.06.1992
• EAN: 9780393064414
• ISBN: 978-0-393-06441-4
• Pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Poids: 358 g
• Thèmes: Natural History Guide to Cape; Natural History Guide to Cape
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Nature: général, ouvrages de référence; Livres de conseils > Nature; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Biologie > Général, dictionnaires