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Alan · Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 468 Location: Woodley, Reading

Wood Ant hill?

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

Yes, it is an ant hill, in Finland. So that limits it to a few species.

Stranger · Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 234 Location: Lancashire

I have a couple on the go to suit whatever mood I'm in:

Ian Rankin; The Black Book - I have most of the Inspector Rebus novels all bought from various branches of BHF shops at around £2 a copy

and

Ranulph Fiennes; Mad, bad and dangerous to know, the autobiography - bought recently from the Cancer research shop for £2.50

I go through stages were I'll not have a book out of my hands to where I won't pick one up for months.

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

Ordered a few cheap field guides, plants. One is prairie flowers and grasses. Thinking of spring.

Also ordered a used text book..I will be doing good if I ever read 50 pages of it, The Diversity and Evolution of Plants, L C Pearson. I think Karwin's Mrs. may have seen it, though it is more theoretical than practical.

College text books, as a rule, weigh a few kilos and cost over 100 dolalrs or euros. Tyhen the students extract what is essential and pass around as pdf file. Only one student per class has to buy it. Laughing

Karwin · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2249 Location: 61N25E

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

Boring, dreamy book. Never could get thru it. Rachel Carson seashore books are better.

Karwin · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2249 Location: 61N25E

What seashore books from Carson do You recommend Question

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

The Sea around us
http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Around-Us-Rachel-Carson/dp/0195147014/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267019370&sr=1-3

She has become an INSTITUTION so that one is the fancy illustrated one. You can get cheap paperbacks

This one I got thru
http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Sea-Rachel-Carson/dp/0395924960/ref=pd_sim_b_1

I think I just looked at the pictures and captions on the fancy one.

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

I escaped the bookstore! I did not buy the book that dealt with forest ecology in Pacific NW here and Australia. It dealt with trees, mushrooms, birds and more so mammals.

Very few ecology books make it to the popular versions, bookstores. Most are college texts.

There are a ton of books for kids with ecology, though.

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

I did get a couple of nature books, one is really ancient, 1959, but ecology related. It was revised 1970s, but ink drawings are still good. Mostly she talks of trees and palnts. Looking at the landscape and determining what should grow there.

Bought it at Smithsonian bookstore, Washington DC.

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

The text book never arrived
The Diversity and Evolution of Plants, L C Pearson

just using field guides now. They are not all that interesting, except one book on the Sierra Nevada nature, an excellent book with detail on each plant and its place. Now how do I get to the Sierra nevada? No time.

Karwin · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2249 Location: 61N25E

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

What were you going to sample? Nature sounds for the stage show?

Karwin · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2249 Location: 61N25E

Esa · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 878 Location: N America

Cool, froggie song.

I ordered my college text elsewhere. It really is a brick. Will have to wait.

I am lost in a prairie grass book now.