Books in Family Field Guides series

This guide is part of the First Field Guide series of natural history field guides, developed in the hope that young people will increasingly take up the challenge to learn the secrets of the fascinating wild creatures of Southern Africa. These little guides are an invaluable resource for the budding naturalist, providing information at a glance through superb photographs, maps and easy-to-read texts.

From the Back Cover Composers: BEHIND THE MUSIC---INTRIGUE, ROMANCE, TRAGEDY AND GENIUS Fandex celebrates great composers, their work, and the world of classical music. Discover the first musical superstar--Lizst. The bourgeois Bach behind the heavenly Brandenburgs. Brahms, who grew up playing piano in bars and brothels, and Stravinsky, whose work incited a full-scale riot. It's every music lover's handheld deck of knowledge. Explorers - DARING CLIMBS, DEATH-DEFYING VOYAGES, DIVES INTO THE VERY DEPTHS--AND ONE SMALL STEP ONTO THE MOON Fandex celebrates the dreamers, scientists, poets and adventurers who opened the frontiers of our world. From the hard-sailing Phoenicians, whose masts were built from the cedars of Lebanon, to Ponce de Leon, who sought not gold but the Fountain of Eternal Youth, to astronaut Neil Armstrong. Painters - The world of Western Art to your fingertips with a field guide to painters, their legacies and the often extreme lives they led. A chronology from Giotto, the first modern painter, to Frank Stella, whose black paintings proclaimed "what you see is what you see." Here is Michelangelo, who resented having to paint the Sistine Chapel because it took him away from sculpture. Botticelli and Vermeer, whose work languished in obscurity until the nineteenth century. Shakespheare -From Henry VI, Part I, with its detailed staging of warfare, to the sublime allegory of The Tempest, here you'll find the hesitation of Hamlet, the absolute evil of Iago, Macbeth's ambition, Lear's blind pride, Falstaff's mockery, Juliet's passion. Illustrated with a fascinating mix of historic paintings and photos of actors in their definitive roles, Shakespeare puts the Bard, his era, and his glorious words in the palm of your hand. American Indian - AMERICAN INDIANS functions like a pocket visual encyclopedia of the history, culture, and customs of fifty major tribes across North America.

This family field guide for readers of all ages covers animal habitat, interactions with humans, birth cycles and litter sizes, interesting animal facts, predator/prey relationships, ecosystems and life zones. The guide provides up-to-date information about the primary mammals encountered in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. The guide is also organized in a way that educators can guide students through important science information.

Providing a comprehensive field-guide to the 255 birds regularly seen in Britain and Ireland, this book devotes a full page to each bird, and a colour code allows readers to locate the different bird groups quickly and easily as they flick through the book. The detailed illustrations were painted by an artist who is himself a keen birdwatcher, and show each species in its major plumages and most typical field positions. Wherever possible, similar birds appear on facing pages and in similar postures, to facilitate comparison. The labels around the artwork are based on the notes that most birdwatchers make in their own field notebooks, and a concise text summmarizes the most important points about each bird's appearance and behaviour, and describes how to distinguish it from similar species. General birdwatching information is provided in the introduction. The author has written over 20 books on birds, as well as scripts for television series such as "Survival" and "The World About Us".