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Author name: Eugene H. Kaplan

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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 508.75
EAN num: 9780395975169
ISBN number: 0395975166
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: February 01, 1999
Publishing house: Houghton Mifflin
Sale Popularity Level: 152750
Studio: Houghton Mifflin




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Product Description:
With more than 750 illustrations, including 300 colour photographs, this guide covers more than 1,000 species, such as shoreside plants, clams, shrimps, crabs, corals, seaweeds, sponges, and sea urchins, as well as all of the common seashore communities found from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Florida, and the Caribbean.



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User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - A great pocket guide to Caribbean Seashores
This is an ideal book for beachcombers with an interest in natural history or for marine biology students on a Caribbean field trip. It is a bit more than your standard identification guide as it has substantial sections of natural history. Kaplan was the founder and director of the Hofstra University Marine Lab for many years and this book reflects his decades of fisled experience and enthusiasm for teaching marine biology in the field.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Good
This book arrived in a timely manner and was in good condition.



Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Trying to Hard
Where Kaplan's "Coral Reefs" manages to take a difficult field guide topic and conquer it, "Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores" Takes an impossible task and muddles it. I don't know what the people at Peterson's Field Guides was thinking! The topic is far to broad to include in one book, and Kaplan seems to try and make it broader. He includes coral reefs and things distinctly NOT on the shore as well as including topics already in other field guides. I do NOT want to belittle Kaplan (whom I enjoy) or Peterson's (who I think makes the best mass consumption field guides available) but unless you really need it, I would stay away from this book. It does win points for it�s illustrations and Kaplan�s knowledge and writing style.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Don't Leave Home Without It!
I have taken Kaplan's field guide to seashores to Florida Keys, the Bahamas, the USVI, The BVI, Bonaire, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Curacao, and have found the book to be indispensible. No matter which island, each seashore seemed familiar, and with a little judicious reading beforehand,I understood whatever natural phenomena I saw, from snorkelling in the shallows to walking the rocky shore to crawling around the blue mangrove roots. I would no sooner leave this field guide home when I go to the Carribbean or Florida, than leave home my Michelin Guide to Europe when I go there. I recommend the Field Guide to Seashores to all nature lovers and snorkelers who want to make the best of their trip to the the Caribbean or Florida.



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