Amazing Snakes of the Northwest


Book Description

The Pacific Northwest is home to a variety of snakes that range widely in size, behavior, and appearance. This book teaches students how to identify local snakes. It also imparts important life science concepts.




Amazing Snakes of the Northwest


Book Description

The Pacific Northwest is home to a variety of snakes that range widely in size, behavior, and appearance. This book teaches students how to identify local snakes. It also imparts important life science concepts.




Amazing Snakes of the Southwest and West Coast


Book Description

With around 100 snake species, ranging from the harmless garter snake to the deadly rattlesnake, the Southwest is both a snake’s and a snake lover’s paradise. Curious readers will learn all about what’s slithering through the mountains and deserts of the region and exactly why the Southwest and West Coast are such a good habitat for these cold-blooded creatures.




Amazing Snakes of the Northeast


Book Description

Whether they are catching live fish, camouflaging themselves with surprising effectiveness, or slithering straight up tree trunks, snakes in the Northeast have some impressive talents. Even reluctant readers will be enthralled by page after page of colorful snake photographs.




Reptiles of the Northwest


Book Description

An interpretive naturalist, writer, educator and reptile specialist from Bend, Oregon, Alan St. John has crafted a richly photographed guide to the reptiles, snakes and turtles found in the Pacific Northwest. Each of the book's 44 accounts features photog




The Snake River-Palouse and the Invasion of the Inland Northwest


Book Description

Originally released in 1986 as Renegade Tribe, this award-winning title sensitively retells the compelling saga of western expansion and Indian-white conflict from a Native American perspective and offers a new foreword by Chief Tilcoax's descendent Wilson Wewah.







Snakes of Central and Western Africa


Book Description

Snakes of Central and Western Africa illuminates a previously little-known part of the natural world, provides vital information that could save many lives, and will make an excellent addition to any herpetology library.




Early Northwest Semitic Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts


Book Description

Foreword / by Robert K. Ritner -- Introduction -- R'r-R?', the Two-Headed mother snake -- The Semitic spells and their Egyptian context -- Old Egyptian phonology -- Conclusions.




100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest


Book Description

The diverse hikes in this collection are all within a three-hour driving radius of Spokane, Washington, including trails in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and British Columbia.* Ninety-three detailed hiking maps* Trail elevation profiles* Includes information for anglors, scramblers, and those looking for the solitude of an old-growth forestThe Inland Northwest is bordered on the west by the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers and on the east by the rugged Montana Rockies. The imaginary boundary slips south slightly into Oregon and north into the glaciered mountains of Canada. You'll get directions to the area's best trails with this guidebookThe area covers 16 million acres of national forests, two million acres of national parks and recreation areas, and portions of more than six million acres of officially designated or proposed wilderness areas. From sagebrush country to alpine meadows, this trails guide book is designed to introduce hikers to some of the best routesin these wild areas.