- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; None edition (Dec 18 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0395910919
- ISBN-13: 978-0395910917
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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The first comprehensive field guide to freshwater fishes - covers all 790 species known in the United States and Canada. More than 700 illustrations, most in color, show identifying marks. Also includes 377 distribution maps and additional drawings of key details.
About the Author
Eugene C. Beckham is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Craig Wayne Ronto is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
John P. Sherrod is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. After graduating from high school‚ Peterson moved to New York City‚ where he attended the Art Students League (1927-1928) and the National Academy of Design (1929-1931). He then taught science and art at the Rivers School in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2‚000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 5 editions. He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks.
Craig Wayne Ronto is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
John P. Sherrod is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. After graduating from high school‚ Peterson moved to New York City‚ where he attended the Art Students League (1927-1928) and the National Academy of Design (1929-1931). He then taught science and art at the Rivers School in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2‚000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 5 editions. He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks.
Peterson received every major American award for natural science, ornithology, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary medals, diplomas, and citations from America and elewhere, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the Golden Ark of the Netherlands. He died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, New York is named in his honor.
DR. LAWRENCE M. PAGE is curator of fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History. He is also principal scientist emeritus for the Illinois Natural History Survey's Center for Biodiversity, and an affiliate professor at the University of Florida. He is known for Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Authors' residence: Gainesville, Florida.
DR. BROOKS M. BURR is a professor in the department of zoology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and is an affiliate scientist of the Illinois Natural History Survey. Dr. Page and Dr. Burr have extensive field experience and have published numerous papers on the freshwater fishes of North America. Authors' residence: Carbondale, Illinois.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Finishing the Trilogy,
By Currahee (South Mississippi) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico (Paperback)
It might interest the reader of this review (since your looking at the book) to know that while fresh water only represents about 1% of the available aquatic habitat on earth over half of the known species of fish live in it. I'll leave it up to you to find out why. Peterson Field Guides have a winning formula, find an expert, set them up with a good illustrator and see what comes out. This book finishes the trio that covers all of the fishes likely to be encountered by a North American fisherman, diver or naturalist. Like the Fishes of the Atlantic Coast and the Fishes of the Pacific Coast it is well organized, well written, all inclusive (of species) and as informative as space will allow. If you are curious about fishes in general or encounter fresh water fish with any kind of regularity you owe it to yourself to find out what they are. And, if you live in North America you should have this book.
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A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes,
By Tyler Jenson (Beloit, WI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico (Paperback)
This book has informed me on the many fishes I catch ranging from California to New York. Every year when I go down to Arkansas I alwyas bring it with me on my fishing journeys so that I no whati am catching. It has over 700 illistrations and over 300 maps. In all of my searching for book this has been the most helpful book I have used. I recamend buying it for yourself. It will help you alot.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best field guide written for freshwater fishes.,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico (Paperback)
It is by far the best field guide for freshwater fishes in North America. Each description of the fish are accurate and the plate drawings are great.
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