A Peterson Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants: North America North of Mexico

by Roger Caras, Steven Foster, Roger Tory Peterson (Editor)

Overview

This essential guide to safety in the field features 90 venomous animals and more than 250 poisonous plants and fungi. The 340 line drawings make identification fast and simple; 160 species are also illustrated with color photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395936085
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	09/28/1998
Series:	Peterson Field Guides Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	210,216
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.25(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

With more than 40 years of experience in the herbal field, Steven Foster is author, co-author, and photographer of seventeen books. He lives in Eureka Springs Arkansas, in the heart of the medicinal plant-rich Ozarks.

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.