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Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City
Leslie Day
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Description for Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City
Hardback. Your evening walk will never be the same once you come to know the quiet giants that line the city's streets. Illustrator(s): Smoke, Trudy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 275, 50 colour plates, 5 maps, 220 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Imagine an urban oasis with hundreds of thousands of trees and whose mayor wants to plant a million more. That sylvan place is New York City, and this is a guide to the diverse trees that line its streets. Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City acquaints New Yorkers and visitors alike with fifty species of trees commonly found in the neighborhoods where people live, work, and travel. Beautiful, original drawings of leaves and stunning photographs of bark, fruit, flower, and twig accompany informative descriptions of each species. Detailed maps of the five boroughs identify all of ... Read more
Imagine an urban oasis with hundreds of thousands of trees and whose mayor wants to plant a million more. That sylvan place is New York City, and this is a guide to the diverse trees that line its streets. Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City acquaints New Yorkers and visitors alike with fifty species of trees commonly found in the neighborhoods where people live, work, and travel. Beautiful, original drawings of leaves and stunning photographs of bark, fruit, flower, and twig accompany informative descriptions of each species. Detailed maps of the five boroughs identify all of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421401515
SKU
V9781421401515
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Ref
99-1
About Leslie Day
Leslie Day is a biology and life science teacher at The Elisabeth Morrow School. She developed the City Naturalists Summer Institute with the Central Park Conservancy and is the author of Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, also published by Johns Hopkins. Trudy Smoke is a professor of English at Hunter College, City University of ... Read more
Reviews for Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City
"Dr. Day... A sort of Julia Child of nature." (New York Times) "This little gem fills you in on everything finned, furred, feathered, or leafed, and how to find it, in all five boroughs." (House and Garden) "Leslie Day ('a child of Manhattan') reveals hidden depths of this urban behemoth... A wonderful guide to the green side of the Big ... Read more