The Living Gulf Coast

✍ Scribed by Williams, Charles

• Book ID: 109334266
• Publisher: INDIGO PR L C
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 107 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

The Living Gulf Coast provides inspiration to get outdoors and celebrate nature's treasures. Residents and visitors to Florida will find this an essential field guide to best appreciate and understand our living landscape with its unique biodiversity. --Dr. Meg Lowman, author of Life in the Treetops (Yale University Press); designer of Myakka River State Park canopy walkway, Myakka, FL

Charles Sobczak's The Living Gulf Coast is a wonderful resource to enjoying the nature of Southwest Florida. Whether you are a newcomer or have visited or lived here for years, you will discover special natural places that you never knew about all outlined in this guide. We recommend it to all nature lovers. --Don and Lillian Stokes, Authors of The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Hachette Books)

Charles Sobczak has captured all the reasons we cherish our natural treasures in Southwest Florida our unique waters, land and wildlife. The book inspires us to protect our paradise for generations to come. --Andrew McElwaine, President, Conservancy of Southwest Florida

Product Description

The Living Gulf Coast is the first comprehensive nature guide to Florida's Southwest region. The book covers six counties: Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Glades and Hendry. There are more than 160 parks, preserves and eco-destinations covered in this work, with sixty-one of them described in great detail. Not only does the book describe these outstanding destinations, it also covers all the major birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians found throughout the region. The bird section includes 291 species with 120 of the most commonly encountered birds covered in exacting detail. It also includes all the major mammals and eighty-eight snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodilans found in the unique ecosystems of Southwest Florida. With more than 600 full-color photographs of wildlife, campgrounds, rivers and parks this is an essential tool for exploring everywhere from the Florida Everglades to the aquarium at Mote Marine. This book is an absolute must have for any nature lover, birder, biker, hiker, kayaker, canoeist or naturalist planning to visit Southwest Florida.