Bøger af Melanie Choukas-Bradley

Being present in a forest can produce mental, emotional, and physical health benefits; Wild Walking is a simple antidote to our nature-starved lives.

A thorough yet user-friendly companion to the authors' popular paperback Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology, and Natural Lore--both books are the result of a ten-year collaboration--this volume is an exquisitely illustrated guide to 350 eastern woodland wildflowers and trees found on site at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. Many of these plants also thrive across a wide region of the eastern United States and Canada, making this guide a remarkably helpful resource for both mid-Atlantic naturalists--amateur and experienced--and botanical enthusiasts across North America. Author Melanie Choukas-Bradley and illustrator Tina Thieme Brown have teamed up once again to create a practical tool for answering the age-old question frequently raised by visitors to the woods: "What is that plant over there?" At the same time, Choukas-Bradley and Brown aim to educate by presenting the plants grouped by family, so that the observer will learn to anticipate the presence of certain plants based on an understanding of their family characteristics. The text describes each plant's flower, leaf, and growth habit, gives its ideal habitat and range, describes similar species that might be confused with the plant, and gives an herbal history where applicable. And because plants are organized by family and genus, the scholarly reader can build on his or her botanical knowledge.An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees includes a user-friendly key, an illustrated glossary of frequently used botanical terms, and is packed with nearly 400 elaborately and artistically detailed pen-and-ink drawings to make plant identification simple and fun.

Find solace in intimate connections with the natural world, even if that world is your backyard or an apartment balcony.

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An illustrated guide to 350 eastern woodland wildflowers and trees found onsite at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. It includes a botanical key and an illustrated glossary of common and scientific names, and contains nearly 400 pen-and-ink drawings.

Washington, DC, boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This guide is suitable for locating, identifying, and learning about them. It gives the reader a guided tour of the nation's capital, highlighting historic and rare trees of the urban canopy. It also includes photographs of flowering trees.

In this natural history and guidebook, Melanie Choukas-Bradley presents a blend of local, natural and historical detail that transports the reader simultaneously onto the slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain and into the region's past.