Archive for the ‘Field guides’ Category

This guide to the field guides includes a “sleeper” — a color- illustrated plant book that costs only $6.99! At the other end of the scale, if you can get it, is the 800 page Flora of the Cayman Islands. Here’s a very personal “library” covering the books in the photo, and a few websites as well.

This is an important book by a most influential columnist. It is probably helping to guide President Obama’s thinking on America’s energy future. His twin theses are the need to turn down the carbon load, and how the USA can claim its economic and technological pre-eminence by embracing this challenge.