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The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North: 109 Flexibound – 4 October 2016
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The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Featuring superb color illustrations, this one-of-a-kind book covers the complete spectrum of wildlife--more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals--that inhabit the Arctic's polar deserts, tundra, taiga, sea ice, and oceans. It can be used anywhere in the entire Holarctic region, including Norway's Svalbard archipelago, Siberia, the Russian Far East, islands of the Bering Sea, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, size, habitat, range, scientific name, and the unique characteristics that enable these organisms to survive in the extreme conditions of the Far North. A color distribution map accompanies each species account, and alternative names in German, French, Norwegian, Russian, Inuit, and Inupiaq are also provided. * Features superb color plates that allow for quick identification of more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals * Includes detailed species accounts and color distribution maps * Covers the flora and fauna of the entire Arctic region
- Print length544 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date4 October 2016
- Dimensions13.72 x 3.56 x 21.84 cm
- ISBN-10069113975X
- ISBN-13978-0691139753
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"I can think of no other book that covers the same territory so completely."--George L. Armistead, coauthor of Better Birding
"This book is an astonishing achievement. It is the perfect one-stop field guide for anyone visiting the Arctic, whether in the Old World or the New World."--Nigel Redman, coauthor of Birds of the Horn of Africa
About the Author
Sharon Chester is a naturalist, wildlife photographer, illustrator, and author of several natural history guides, including A Wildlife Guide to Chile (Princeton). She splits her time between San Mateo, California, and her home in Fulton, Illinois, near the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
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- Publisher : Princeton University Press; 1st edition (4 October 2016)
- Language : English
- Flexibound : 544 pages
- ISBN-10 : 069113975X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0691139753
- Dimensions : 13.72 x 3.56 x 21.84 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 324,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 215 in Winter Sports (Books)
- 252 in Scientific Reference
- 271 in Nature & Ecology Reference
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Reviewed in Spain on 22 June 2021



This book contains information on mammals and birdlife in the Arctic, but also lists flora, fish and insects. The illustrations are phenomenal and you can tell the amount of work that has gone into creating this guide.