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Crawling with more than 600 drawings, charts and photographs of birds, fish, hard and softshell creatures, plants, nuts and trees. Many are beautiful, exotic, strange. . . . After a few hours with Life Along the Inner Coast, one could want to be t

This book is called a guide, but it has enough information for a marine biology course. -- Woodenboat Review

Crawling with more than 600 drawings, charts and photographs of birds, fish, hard and softshell creatures, plants, nuts and trees. Many are beautiful, exotic, strange. . . . After a few hours with Life Along the Inner Coast, one could want to be there.--RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities The best word to describe this guide is 'lush.' From the gorgeous jacket photos to the hundreds of illustrations, it is a joy to behold. And because the authors are knowledgeable while at the same time wonderful writers, it is a joy to read as well. Charleston Post and Courier [A] naturalist's guide to the more than 800 species of plants and animals found in the habitats of one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. It's illustrated with 400 of Lippson's elegant pen-and-ink drawings.--Hopkins Medicine Offers the reader a rich understanding of the relationship between organisms and where they live. . . . A valuable resource for naturalists, students, and anyone who lives or vacations along the Atlantic Inner Coast.--Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment A guidebook with wonderful pictures, line drawings, and illustrations. . . . An invaluable resource for laypersons and students alike.--Choice This book is called a guide, but it has enough information for a marine biology course.--Woodenboat Review This comprehensive work is written by recognized authorities in a discursive style that will entertain and inform the reader.--Current Books on Gardening and Botany The perfect traveling companion. . . . An excellent, and some might say essential, guide to understanding the plants and animal that call the [Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway] home.--Virginia Wildlife

Crawling with more than 600 drawings, charts and photographs of birds, fish, hard and softshell creatures, plants, nuts and trees. Many are beautiful, exotic, strange. . . . After a few hours with Life Along the Inner Coast , one could want to be there. -- RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities

This delightful book is truly required reading for all those planning or yearning to visit, study, or learn more about America's southeastern inland waterway, and certainly for anyone living in the vicinity of this watery wonderland. Written in a beautiful style by seriously well-informed, modern-age naturalists, Life along the Inner Coast is a fascinating translation of science into prose and art. --Kenneth Leber, Mote Marine Laboratory

Crawling with more than 600 drawings, charts and photographs of birds, fish, hard and softshell creatures, plants, nuts and trees. Many are beautiful, exotic, strange. . . . After a few hours with Life Along the Inner Coast, one could want to be there.--RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities [A] naturalist's guide to the more than 800 species of plants and animals found in the habitats of one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. It's illustrated with 400 of Lippson's elegant pen-and-ink drawings.--Hopkins Medicine The best word to describe this guide is 'lush.' From the gorgeous jacket photos to the hundreds of illustrations, it is a joy to behold. And because the authors are knowledgeable while at the same time wonderful writers, it is a joy to read as well. Charleston Post and Courier Offers the reader a rich understanding of the relationship between organisms and where they live. . . . A valuable resource for naturalists, students, and anyone who lives or vacations along the Atlantic Inner Coast.--Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment A guidebook with wonderful pictures, line drawings, and illustrations. . . . An invaluable resource for laypersons and students alike.--Choice This book is called a guide, but it has enough information for a marine biology course.--Woodenboat Review This comprehensive work is written by recognized authorities in a discursive style that will entertain and inform the reader.--Current Books on Gardening and Botany The perfect traveling companion. . . . An excellent, and some might say essential, guide to understanding the plants and animal that call the [Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway] home.--Virginia Wildlife

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Robert L. Lippson has served as senior scientist of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Research Program, research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University.||Alice Jane Lippson has worked as a research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and Martin-Marietta Corporation and as a professional scientific illustrator. They are authors of the popular guidebook Life in the Chesapeake Bay

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