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Pocket Nature Series

Leaf Peeping cover

As you know – or if you’re a new visitor here, perhaps you don’t – I never leave my home without a book ready-to-hand; sometimes in a packet and others actually in-hand. Not unexpectedly, such EDR (every day read) books need to be small (see the aforesaid pocket reference) and relatively short to be toted about as such. Fortunately, many publishers have, and others continue to, make such pocket-sized books available. Most recently, I discovered two from Chronicle Books that are particularly well suited to the purpose: The Pocket Nature Series.

The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals: Second Edition

Kingdon Pocket Guide 2nd cover

One of the many joys of field guides, aside,  of course, from their utility of identifying species, is perusing them out of pure curiosity to discover what manner of animals, plants, or whatever their respective subject may be are to be found in a given area (or even in existence, for that matter). 

Wildlife of Southeast Asia

Wildlife of Southeast Asia cover

Whenever I am bound for some far-off destination, at least one of the books I stuff into my already over-stuffed bag will be a relevant volume of the Princeton Field Guides or Princeton Pocket Guides series. I make it a point of maintaining an extensive collection of them for just such purposes.

Wildlife of the Galápagos, Second Edition

Wildlife Galapagos cover

Anyone who has ever made the journey to the famous Galápagos Islands will tell the prospective traveler two things: that they’ll be amazed at what they will see there (both good and, due to the high levels tourism in recent years, bad) and that they’ll need to travel with as little luggage as possible. And – sad to say – one of the things that adds weight quickly is a stack of field guides.

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