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Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy and accurate.
- Sales Rank: #71393 in Books
- Brand: McGavin, George C./ Gorton, Steve (PHT)
- Published on: 2002-10-01
- Released on: 2002-02-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.44" h x .69" w x 5.75" l, 1.05 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Amazon.com Review
Dorling Kindersly publishing is known for their beautiful and informative books, covering a huge range of topics, including science and nature. This DK insect handbook's lush photos and thorough information make it an excellent beginning resource for the insectophile. While not comprehensive enough to replace an entomology handbook, and not specific enough to be a perfect field guide, Insects rests comfortably in the handbook territory. Its sturdy binding and quick reference features make it a natural to take along on family outings. Each page is lavished with full-color photo layouts showing close-up detail of major insect and arachnid groups, and the accompanying text provides basic information on life cycles, ranges, special habits and features, and trivia. The author, George C. McGavin, is a respected entomologist specializing in insect ecology. For quick identification of major bugs and arachnids, as well as tips on how to observe terrestrial arthropods in nature, this handbook can't be beat. --Therese Littleton
About the Author
George McGavin is an assistant curator of entomological collections at Oxford University who lectures on biological and human sciences. He is the author of "Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction,"
David Burnie is a biologist and zoologist whose professional books have won educational awards and science prizes.
Sorkin is an arachnologist and board-certified entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
Miranda Harrison is a freelance writer and editor, specialising in the arts. Formerly Managing Editor at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Editorial Director at Scala Publishers Ltd, she has a degree in Art History from Manchester University. She was a reviewer and feature writer for many years for "The Good Book Guide," on history, travel and the arts, and has contributed many articles to magazines within the design and publishing press. She is the author of a short guide to Picasso's "Guernica" and a book on Ancient Egypt.
Steve Gorton is an established photographer, with over 20 years' experience of working with publishers. He has photographed a vast range of subjects, though his quality of observation is particularly borne out in his observation of place and environment, whether natural or manmade.
Most helpful customer reviews
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
A great overview of insects
By A Customer
This book has a lot of useful information about insects. It describes basic characteristics, life cycle, and much more. It also includes info on other terrestrial arthropods, such as spiders and centipedes. As a field guide, it focuses on families of insects, not species, which makes more sense because there are so many species that are hard to identify. There are great photographs and descritions as well.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Great guide--teach yourself to identify most insect families
By Ms. WB
This is really a nicely done guide and almost fits in my coat pocket. The pictures are fabulous and the insects are divided up into their respective families with very clear identifying traits. I'm really impressed, so much easy-to-use information in such a small book. This would be a great precursor to an entomology class. Some of my favorite critters are in the Psuedoscorpion order and are the cheliferids and chernetids, both of which look like tiny ticks with claws. So very cool. I actually found one once in Washington state--in my kitchen! It was very, very tiny. I digress. A book like this is handy if you are always finding insects and wondering what the heck you are looking at. A good value!
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Mixed Feelings
By Gloops
Mixed feelings about this handbook. It gives an excellent introduction to an enormous subject, and provides a manageable overview using Linnaean taxonomy (family tree), within its 250 pages. Its illustrations are clear and detailed and in glorious colour. Many of the bugs are absolutely beautiful.
However, it recognises its own limitations by saying "... impossible to include [all 1500 families of terrestrial arthropods] in this book. We have chosen a broad range from around the world, including [those that] are particularly important, common or simply fascinating in some way".
As a result, if you really need something to identify the creatures in the area where you live, then this handbook won't get you very far. For example, the entire world's Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are dealt with in 20 pages and the Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) in only 5. Compare this with, say, the 84 and 21 pages respectively (out of a total of 320) in Bob Gibbons' "Field Guide to Insects of Britain and Northern Europe", which I found to be of much more practical use, simply because its scope is geographically far less ambitious. The Gibbons book won't help US readers, I know, but the comparison is likely to be true for any good quality LOCAL field guide.
The DK/Smithsonian production is attractive and eye-catching, and could very well spark a youngster's interest in the subject, but it is probably more suited to the coffee table than to the field and the garden.
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