When the freshly printed copy of the new “Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White” arrived, I made a quick scan of the authors whose writings are collected in it. As it turns out, I know each one, which will make it a somewhat challenging book to review.
Building on the paradigm of a regional general natural history field guide that Kaufman originally originally established in the Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England, this second volume in the series takes up the flora and fauna of – as well as the geology, climate, and night sky as seen from – Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
Such a wide-angle overview of nature is only possible for a limited geographic area if the book in which it is contained is to be sufficiently compact to fit into a jacket pocket or field bag; which is why the Kaufmans limited the scope of this field guide to the nature of just New England.
Continuing the expansion of the now internationally-renowned Kaufman Field Guide series, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced the forthcoming publication of the first of a new group of more general natural history field guides under the Kaufman series name: the Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England by Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman. Initial pre-release information indicates […]