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Photographs and forty short essays explore flora and fauna by taking a close look at their small details, including a swan's feather and the gills of an anamita mushroom (view table of contents)

Product Description: Are all snowflakes really different? Why do sugar maple leaves turn brilliant red, not yellow? These and many other questions are answered by The Naturalists' Year, a guide for the naturally curious. Organized in 26 chapters corresponding to two-week intervals throughout the year, readers are given close-up investigations into nature, with in-depth discussions of biological, geological, botanical, and zoological phenomena that they can easily observe almost anywhere in the U...read more