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Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada - Two-Volume Set (Paperback)
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Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada - Two-Volume Set (Paperback)
Series: Comstock Classic Handbooks
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For years Albert Hazen Wright and Anna Allen Wright traveled
extensively, attempting to observe every species of snake in North
America in its natural surroundings and collecting data and live
specimens. Their exhaustive research resulted in a famous
two-volume sourcebook, first published in 1957. Abundantly and
painstakingly illustrated by the authors, this personalized natural
history organizes for ready reference a wealth of information on
American and Canadian snakes.Across the two volumes of Handbook of
Snakes of the United States and Canada are accounts of more than
three hundred species and subspecies, accompanied by photographs,
drawings, and distribution maps. Generous excerpts from the
authors' field journals give the reader a vivid feeling of some of
the satisfactions and conclusions of the Wrights' search.Volume I
features an introductory section in which the Wrights cover snake
names and such features of their biology and behavior as range,
size, longevity, distinctive characteristics, color, habitat,
period of activity, breeding, ecdysis, food, venom and bite, and
enemies. It also includes an informative new foreword written for
the 1994 reprint edition by Jonathan A. Campbell, a leading expert
on snakes. The main section of Volume I comprises in-depth accounts
of twenty-nine snake species, from Leptotyphlopidae (blind snakes)
to Opheodrys (green snakes).Volume II includes species accounts of
nineteen species, from Oxybelis (pike-headed tree snakes) to
Sistrurus (ground rattlesnakes, pigmy rattlesnakes, and
massasaugas), as well as a glossary and an index for both volumes
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