Nevada Guide Books

The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) By John Muir Laws Heyday Books Paperback (366 pages) List Price: $24.95 Lowest New Price: $14.01 Lowest Used Price: $17.17 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: With more than 2,800 original watercolor illustrations, John Muir Laws has masterfully catalogued over 1,700 species of Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and other small animals. The guide is designed for quick and easy use in the field. Color tabs and a unique system of keys and organization assist in the quick identification of the living things encountered along the trail, while Laws s illustrations capture the feeling of plants and animals with detail critical for their classification.

Afoot & Afield Reno-Tahoe: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide By Mike White Wilderness Press Paperback (362 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $12.36 Lowest Used Price: $14.23 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Book Description: This addition to Wilderness Press's successful Afoot & Afield series is the most comprehensive outdoor guide to the vast backcountry surrounding Reno and Lake Tahoe. This guide features more than 150 trips in the Reno and Lake Tahoe region, including Graeagle, Truckee, Echo Summit, Mt. Rose, and Carson Valley. Trips range from easy strolls to challenging treks and include distance, time, elevation gain, difficulty, and trail notes.

Firestorm (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) By Nevada Barr Avon Released: 1997-05-01 Mass Market Paperback (336 pages) List Price: $7.99 Lowest New Price: $2.00 Lowest Used Price: $0.01 In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Amazon.com: A raging fire in a national park seems an unlikely setting for a murder, but that's exactly the circumstances that crime-fighting park ranger and medic Anna Pigeon confronts in this mystery thriller. A suspicious fire breaks loose in Northern California's Lassen Volcanic Park and Pigeon assists in battling the blaze and treating the wounds of other fire fighters. As if that's not enough, Pigeon finds herself without food and water trapped with a group of fire fighters, one of whom is a murderer. She tries to figure out who the culprit is before he, or the weather, strikes again.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah (Audubon Field Guide) By NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY Knopf Released: 1999-09-21 Turtleback (448 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $10.97 Lowest Used Price: $5.80 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States belongs in the home of every resident of the Southwest and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor.  This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more; A complete overview of the southwestern region's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns, and the night sky; An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, mountains, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others. The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 9 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as more than 100 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals.   For everyone who lives or spends time in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, or Utah, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States.

Sierra Nevada Natural History (California Natural History Guides) By Tracy I. Storer & David Lukas University of California Press Turtleback (592 pages) List Price: $24.95 Lowest New Price: $16.46 Lowest Used Price: $13.28 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The magnificent and much-loved Sierra Nevada, called the "Range of Light" by John Muir, is the dominant feature on the California landscape. First published forty years ago, this handbook has become an enduring natural history classic, used by thousands to learn more about virtually every aspect of this spectacular mountain range--from its superb flora and fauna to its rugged topography. Comprehensive yet concise and portable, the book describes hundreds of species: trees and shrubs, flowering plants and ferns, fungi and lichens, insects and fish, amphibians and reptiles, and birds and mammals. Now completely updated and revised, it will continue to be the essential guide to the Sierra Nevada for a new generation of hikers, campers, tourists, naturalists, students, and teachers--everyone who wants to know more about this unique and beautiful mountain range. * Describes more than 750 of the species most likely to be encountered with more than 500 new color photographs and 218 detailed black-and-white drawings * Includes engaging and accessible introductory sections on Sierra Nevada topography, climate, geological history, and human history * The compact, updated species accounts make identification easy, provide informative remarks on ecology and life history, and note which species are threatened or endangered

Benchmark Nevada Road & Recreation Atlas - 2nd Edition By Benchmark Maps Benchmark Maps Paperback (96 pages) List Price: $22.95 Lowest New Price: $14.41 Lowest Used Price: $15.40 (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Book Description: Nevada is known as the wildest adventure state in the lower 48. Finally there's an atlas to fully corral all of Nevada's outdoor potential. Careful and thorough field checking and local research have made this atlas an essential resource for both town and country. The Recreation Guide features maps with hunting unit boundaries over public lands tints and emphasize historic trails and points of interest.

The Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country By Steve Roper Mountaineers Books Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $16.95 Lowest New Price: $8.80 Lowest Used Price: $10.30 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here

Sierra Trout Guide By Ralph Cutter Frank Amato Publications Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $11.95 Lowest Used Price: $6.71 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Amazon.com: More than just a guide to finding trout in the diverse waters of California's Sierra Nevadas, this is a colorful and informative overview of the fish, their habitat, and techniques for bringing them to net. It begins with a detailed description of the native and non-native trout species of the Sierras, including beautiful full-color plates. Subsequent chapters include discussions of hydraulics, trout behavior, entomology, locating fish, and traveling in the backcountry. Anyone who fishes--or plans to fish in the Sierra Nevadas--should read this book from start to finish.

Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Guide to Religion By Nevada Barr Berkley Trade Released: 2004-06-01 Paperback (240 pages) List Price: $14.00 Lowest New Price: $7.08 Lowest Used Price: $1.95 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels. Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for meaning in life. Hat by hat, step by step, Barr leads readers down her path to enlightenment by sharing personal episodes, some of them funny and revealing, others painfully honest. Each chapter offers a truth or an answer forged through experience and deep reflection, and a nugget of insight certain to encourage thought and discussion among readers, who may, in turn, find their own spiritual language.

Geology of the Sierra Nevada (California Natural History Guides) By Mary Hill University of California Press Paperback (468 pages) List Price: $19.95 Lowest New Price: $13.00 Lowest Used Price: $10.50 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 04:04 Pacific 30 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Writing with verve and clarity, Mary Hill tells the story of the magnificent Sierra Nevada--the longest, highest, and most spectacular mountain range in the contiguous United States. Hill takes us from the time before the land which would be California even existed, through the days of roaring volcanoes, violent earthquakes, and chilling ice sheets, to the more recent history of the Sierra's early explorers and the generations of adventuresome souls who followed. The author introduces the rocks of the Sierra Nevada, which tell the mountains' tale, and explains how nature's forces, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, faulting, erosion, and glaciation formed the range's world-renowned scenery and mineral wealth, including gold. For thirty years, the first edition of Geology of the Sierra Nevada has been the definitive guide to the Sierra Nevada's geological history for nature lovers, travelers, hikers, campers, and armchair explorers. This new edition offers new chapters and sidebars and incorporates the concept of plate tectonics throughout the text. * Written in easy-to-understand language for a wide audience. * Gives detailed information on where to view outstanding Sierra Nevada geology in some of the world's most beloved natural treasures and national parks, including Yosemite. * Provides specific information on places to see glaciers and glacial deposits, caves, and exhibits of gold mines and mining equipment, many from Gold Rush times. * Superbly illustrated with 117 new color illustrations, 16 halftones, 39 line illustrations, and 12 maps, and also features an easy-to-use, interactive key for identifying rocks and a glossary of geological terms.