Description: Filled with more than two hundred color photographs and written with a special focus on conservation, this guide covers forty-five species of this nonthreatening, ancient lineage of long-lived reptiles. Fact-filled descriptions of each species and its habitat comprise the heart of the book.
Brief description: KURT BUHLMANN is a research scientist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.
Review Quotes:
[An] exquisite book . . . on the herpetofauna of the southeastern United States . . . High-quality, clearly written, with an attractive layout . . . Has solid introductory information, detailed species descriptions, excellent range maps and color photographs, line drawings showing defining features, and a strong conservation message. There is an explanation as to how to use the species accounts which will be of value to the lay reader.
--Herpetological Review