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Summary: Incredibly comprehensive.
Review: This fieldguide covers more topics and includes more photos than you might think. Everything from Astronomy to flora/fauna to geology, etc. Since the descriptions are short, but the photos are plentiful, it is a good book to combine with the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock (Cornell Univ. Press). Botsford's book is heavy on the descriptions, but short on photos. With these two books, you have everything you need for a comprehensive course on Natural History.
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Summary: Informative and useful
Review: This guide is by no means comprehensive, but it does contain good photos and descriptions of the flora and fauna you are most likely to encounter in New England, along with geography and astronomy tidbits, too. What it adds up to is a highly useful and convenient guide; to paraphrase the beer commercial, it's the field guide to bring when you just want to bring one!Still, if you're specifically into birds or mammals or trees only, you'd be better off getting the field guide for that specific genre, as this guide won't have enough detailed info for you.
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Summary: The one guide you need.
Review: This is not exhaustive but it has most of what you need and you don't need to have 8 other guides each mostly filled with stuff from other parts of the country. This is perfect for your backyard, the mountains or the beach. This is great for teacher's and parents who like to spend time outdoors.
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