Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City
Leslie Day's Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City is most definitely our favorite book of early 2008, and not just because it's illustrated with thoughtful watercolors. Written by a naturalist who lives at the West 79th Street Boat Basin, the guide's seven chapters contain all kinds of fun, fun facts. For example:
--Wooly mammoths and giant sloths once roamed from Queens to Connecticut
--Huckleberries and strawberries grew plentifully at one time
--Central Park was the first public park in the U.S.
--New York has roughly 30,000 acres of park
--Today, there are at least two types of centipede, five types of butterfly, three types of oak tree, three types of bat, five types of duck, and one mushroom called "artist's conk" sharing our space (and you thought it was the 8.2 million people making things crowded)
--Wooly mammoths and giant sloths once roamed from Queens to Connecticut
--Huckleberries and strawberries grew plentifully at one time
--Central Park was the first public park in the U.S.
--New York has roughly 30,000 acres of park
--Today, there are at least two types of centipede, five types of butterfly, three types of oak tree, three types of bat, five types of duck, and one mushroom called "artist's conk" sharing our space (and you thought it was the 8.2 million people making things crowded)
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