The Arctic Guide
The Arctic Guide by Sharon R. Chester is a comprehensive field guide published by Princeton University Press on October 4, 2016. This edition spans 542 pages and is presented in English, offering a detailed exploration of the flora and fauna found in the Arctic’s diverse ecosystems. The book serves as a portable reference for travelers and naturalists, featuring over 800 species, including plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals, all illustrated in full color.
Readers will find detailed species accounts that include key identification features, habitat information, and scientific names, along with color distribution maps for each species. This guide covers a wide range of Arctic environments, from polar deserts to tundra and sea ice, and is applicable across the Holarctic region, including areas such as Svalbard, Siberia, Alaska, and Greenland. The inclusion of alternative names in various languages enhances its utility for a global audience interested in Arctic wildlife and ecosystems.
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The definitive full-color field guide to Arctic wildlife
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
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