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The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island Rev Edition
Contributor(s): Sterling, Dorothy (Author), Lubell, Winifred (Illustrator), Finch, Robert (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0393064417     ISBN-13: 9780393064414
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $17.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 1992
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Annotation: Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for 200 million years? That mussels "spin" long anchor lines and climb steep slopes with them? Do you know what a "Beetlebung" tree is? This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this penninsula and chain of islands along our New England coast.

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BISAC Categories:
- Nature
Dewey: 578.769
LCCN: 00000000
Series: Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantuc
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.15" W x 9.27" L (0.80 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - New England
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this peninsula and chain of islands along our New England coast.

Contributor Bio(s): Finch, Robert: - Robert Finch has lived on Cape Cod for forty years, currently in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is the author of seven collections of essays, most recently of his radio scripts for his weekly commentary, "A Cape Cod Notebook," on the Cape and Islands NPR Station, WCAI.Lubell, Winifred: - Artist Winifred Lubell's wonderful drawings have illustrated many of Dorothy Sterling's natural history books. She also lives on Cape Cod.Sterling, Dorothy: - Dorothy Sterling (1913--2008) was a native New Yorker who lived for many years on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Long Island. She was a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit.
 
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