Life along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West

by Robert L. Lippson, Alice Jane Lippson, Alice Jane Lippson (Illustrator)

Overview

For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, Life along the Inner Coast is a guide to the plants, animals, and habitats found in one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. It is a valuable resource for naturalists, students, and anyone who lives or vacations along the Atlantic inner coast.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807872277
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Edition description:	1
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Robert L. Lippson has served as senior scientist of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Research Program, research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. Alice Jane Lippson has worked as a research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and Martin-Marietta Corporation and as a professional scientific illustrator. They are authors of the popular guidebook Life in the Chesapeake Bay.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This delightful book is truly required reading for all those planning or yearning to visit, study, or learn more about America's southeastern inland waterway, and certainly for anyone living in the vicinity of this watery wonderland. Written in a beautiful style by seriously well-informed, modern-age naturalists, Life along the Inner Coast is a fascinating translation of science into prose and art.—Kenneth Leber, Mote Marine Laboratory

This is a real encyclopedic adventure for the student of wildlife on the Atlantic coast. Only truly knowledgeable naturalists like Robert and Alice Lippson could have produced such a trove of valuable research for the coastal aficionado.—Hedrick L. Smith, correspondent and senior producer of Poisoned Waters

Editorial Reviews

A guidebook with wonderful pictures, line drawings, and illustrations. . . . An invaluable resource for laypersons and students alike.—Choice

The best word to describe this guide is 'lush.' From the gorgeous jacket photos to the hundreds of illustrations, it is a joy to behold. And because the authors are knowledgeable while at the same time wonderful writers, it is a joy to read as well."Charleston Post and Courier

This book is called a guide, but it has enough information for a marine biology course.—Woodenboat Review

This comprehensive work is written by recognized authorities in a discursive style that will entertain and inform the reader.—Current Books on Gardening and Botany

Offers the reader a rich understanding of the relationship between organisms and where they live. . . . A valuable resource for naturalists, students, and anyone who lives or vacations along the Atlantic Inner Coast.—Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment

The perfect traveling companion. . . . An excellent, and some might say essential, guide to understanding the plants and animal that call the [Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway] home.—Virginia Wildlife

Crawling with more than 600 drawings, charts and photographs of birds, fish, hard and softshell creatures, plants, nuts and trees. Many are beautiful, exotic, strange. . . . After a few hours with Life Along the Inner Coast, one could want to be there.—RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities

[A] naturalist's guide to the more than 800 species of plants and animals found in the habitats of one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. It's illustrated with 400 of Lippson's elegant pen-and-ink drawings.—Hopkins Medicine

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