interested out-of-door nature-study introduction

books:

A Manual For The Study Of Insects (1895)

1 review
John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

A splendid, well illustrated overview of the insects
The 1930 edition is a beautifully written and illustrated revision of Comstock's 1895 college textbook for "teachers of entomology". Lovingly revised with Comstock's blessing, the 1930 edition begins with a general discussion of the Arthropoda in general and the insects in particular. The majority of the book treats various orders of insects including taxonomy, morphology, ontogeny, life history, ...

Insect Life: An Introduction To Nature-Study And A Guide For Teachers, Students, And Others Interested In ...
John Henry Comstock

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Handbook of Nature Study

20 reviews
Anna Botsford Comstock

Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, 1986

Nature Lovers Bible!
If you love nature, have children, teach or are involved in Scouting, you should own this book. It is a wonderful treasure and full of interesting diagrams, studies and information. This is a tremendous guidebook that will help familiarize you with plants, insects, trees, mushrooms -- you name it!