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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Comprehensive guide to Grand Canyon's natural history, including geology, and species illustrations on over 480 plants and animals. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Stephenr Whitney | | Paperback: | 269 pages | | Publisher: | Mountaineers Books | | Publication Date: | November 01, 1996 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0898864895 | | Product Length: | 0.84 inches | | Product Width: | 0.55 inches | | Product Height: | 0.06 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.96 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.3 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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37 of 38 found the following review helpful:
The best all-around field guide to Grand Canyon. Mar 04, 1999
By Charles L Fremont
This is the most thorough traditional field guide to the Canyon, complete with pictures of flora and fauna for identification in the field. It's perfect for day hikes along the rim or packed on raft trips, but if you're going on a long canyon trek on foot you may find it a bit heavy to pack. The great number of pages devoted to an overview of history, basic geology, trails, etc. are not really necessary on the trail and I have even considered cutting all that extraneous material out, as the field guide portions are excellent, but I shrink from slicing up a good book! Steve, how about a two-volume set next time, one for the armchair and one for the trail? Though there is information about Canyon hiking routes, this is not a trail guide; you'll want to get Scott Thybony's or Sharon Spangler's book for that, or one of several others that are available. But it is valuable reading for anyone planning to spend time in one of our most magnificent parks, and certainly worth tossing into your suitcase, if not into your backpack.
23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Concise, and yet thorough Jan 25, 2000
I agree with everything the previous reviewer said, except that I really like the overviews of Canyon geology and so on, and don't feel that those make to book too heavy to be useful as a field guide. This is probably the best and most informative guide for a hiker or visitor to the Grand Canyon to take along.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
best available guide to plants and wildlife Apr 14, 2005
By William Kemsley
"BackpackerBill"
Handy easy-to-use guide to birds, flowers, cacti, wildflowers, reptiles, mammals, geology of the grand canyon. Nothing like it anywhere.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
nice intro to canyon flora and fauna Jun 11, 2006
By Erin Ecenbarger
This book was a nice introduction to the geology, plant and animal life of the grand canyon. It is small enough to take in your pack and is fun to read once you've arrived at camp and try to identify the plants, animals and strata you saw. Not too much specific information about any one species, strata, etc., but good general intros to flora, cacti, etc. I'd recommend it if it's your first hike in the canyon and you're just looking for a simple book to become familiar with the names of thing. You can find it in the gift shops on both rims too.
 Illustrations are illegible on a black and white Kindle Jan 24, 2012
By James L. Barnett
"1arryb"
I wanted to save weight on my hike to Phantom ranch so I bought this guide for my Kindle. Don't bother. Field guides need illustrations. This edition is a cheesy digitization of the dead-tree book filled with illustrations which were originally a) much larger; and b) printed in color. On my 7" b/w kindle, they were near useless.
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