I wish all my nature field guides were like this!
(five star review)
Customer review by solardarkroom |
(reprinted from customer review of the CD on Amazon.com, July 23, 2009, http://www.amazon.com/Plants-San-Gabriel-Mountains-Foothills/dp/B001LOBQ70/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=miscellaneous&qid=1241548845&sr=8-9)
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I have been looking at books and websites to help identify plants in the San Gabriel Mountains and elsewhere in California. This interactive CD is absolutely the best resource I have found for my purposes. I'm used to paging through multiple field guides and cross-referencing images but this CD makes it so much easier. It behaves like a database and is extremely fast and intuitive. The pictures are very high quality and there are multiple perspectives which I have not seen in any online database. There is even an audio button beside the common and scientific names so you can hear the pronunciations; how cool is that?! I hope all nature field guides are like this in the future. Excellent value! |
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