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A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore


A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shorebook coverA Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore

Author: Joanna Burger


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Book Information
  Subject: New Jersey and Regional Studies
ISBN: 0-8135-2300-1
Pages: 304; 100 line drawings
Binding: Paper
   
Reviews
  "An indispensable book for anyone who sets foot in New Jersey and is interested in its flora and fauna. A wonderful addition to anyone's library--even a New Yorkers'!"--George Plimpton

"A tour de force. . . . All 'coasties' (not only New Jerseyans) will like this book; conservationists, naturalists, photographers, fishermen, birders, scientists, beach addicts; in short, lovers of the shore."--Richard Kane, Director of Conservation, New Jersey Audubon Society

"Having A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore is as good as having Joanna Burger at your side--and that's as good as good gets."--Pete Dunne, author of The Wind Masters
   
Description
  Come for a journey along the Jersey shore with naturalist and ecologist Joanna Burger! In these deeply felt, closely observed personal essays, Burger invokes the intertwined lives of naturalist and wild creatures at the ever-changing edge of ocean and land. Discover with her the delicate mating dances of fiddler crabs, the dangers to piping plovers, the swarming of fish communities into the bays and estuaries, the trilling notes of Fowler's toads, and the subtle green-grays of salt marshes.

Joanna Burger knows the shore through all its seasons--the first moment of spring when the herring gulls arrive on ice-gouged salt marshes, the end of spring when the great flocks of shorebirds come to feed on horseshoe crab eggs at Cape May, the summer when the peregrine hunts its prey, the fall when the migrations of hawks and monarch butterflies attract watchers from around the world, and the depths of winter when a lone snowy owl sweeps across snow-covered dunes and frozen bay.

This is a book that anyone who loves the Jersey shore will cherish! And because so many of these wonderful creatures live all along the Atlantic coast, it will be of equal interest to beach-lovers, naturalists, bird-watchers, fishermen, and coastal and marine scientists from North Carolina to Maine.
   
Biography
  Joanna Burger is a professor of biological sciences at Rutgers University. She has written over 350 scientific papers as well as essays for the general reader in Natural History, Explorer's Journal, and New Jersey Outdoors. Her seven books include Before and After an Oil Spill: The Arthur Kill (Rutgers University Press). She lives in Somerset, New Jersey, with her family on their own nature preserve.



 



 
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