A colorful book that will teach and inspire. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published January 1st by Stackpole Books first published December 15th More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook , please sign up. I am keen to know their views. See 1 question about How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook. Oct 24, Katy added it. A book that I will want to spend some time with, and do the practice exercises.
A good starting point for keeping a notebook. Nov 24, Susan Tweit rated it really liked it. Are you a backyard birdwatcher curious about the lives and habits of your feathered friends? A hiker who wonders about the world you ramble through? An artist or writer seeking to learn more about nature? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Susan Leigh Tomlinson's book is for you. This thoughtful and elegantly written guide shows you to how to dip beneath the surface of the natural world through keeping an illustrated field journal.
We journal about our lives, why the other species ar Are you a backyard birdwatcher curious about the lives and habits of your feathered friends?
We journal about our lives, why the other species around us as well? Observing and noting nature is a way of getting to know that wider, wilder community, and through it, deepening our understanding of our own species. It's a way of honoring the living world, as Mary Oliver writes in these lines from her poem, "Where Does the Temple End; Where Does It Begin," which Tomlinson uses as an epigraph in the book: "I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.
Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around as though with your arms open. She begins with the basics: what kind of notebook or journal to pick, plus pens, pencils, field bag, compass, hand lens, binoculars.
Then comes the illustrated part: learning how to sketch or draw. You say you can't draw? Not to worry, Tomlinson can teach you. And along the way, she shows you how to use a field guide, understand scientific names each of which is a story in just two words , refine your observation skills, ask questions and research what you observe, and polish your writing.
How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook is illustrated with Tomlinson's lovely sketches, as well as field journal pages from her students, none of whom, she notes for the faint-hearted among us, were actually majoring in either art or science. So if they can learn to sketch and observe My only quibble--and it's a small one--is in the book's design, which is oddly formal, like that of a textbook. Tomlinson did write the book for her students, but the design could still have embraced the informality of her wry sense of humor and the medium she's writing about.
The design could have been fun and full of wonder, and thus honored the spirit Tomlinson brings to her relationship with nature--and life. Copyright Susan J. Great for the starter naturalist, like me. As a kid, I was never a big fan of nature except for the beach and river. As an adult, I'm trying to connect more with nature and thought a nature journal would be great because I already am an avid journaler.
This was the perfect book to start with. It has basic techniques for how to draw things. What I didn't love was the seemingly endless talk about "bins" birder slang for binoculars.
Compared to the other topics of the book, I felt like she went too Great for the starter naturalist, like me. Compared to the other topics of the book, I felt like she went too much into detail about the binoculars and too little detail into how to for example add color to your drawings. Don't get me wrong, getting a good set of binoculars is a good idea, but for this starter naturalist it was a bit much. I ended up dozing off and losing focus. As for the Kindle edition, I always appreciate when books have page numbers instead of the awkward Kindle location, and this one has page numbers.
Plus, the footnotes pop up instead of taking you to another page. At least for me, it's distracting when a footnote jumps to another page. So, I really appreciated that this book had the pop-up footnotes. Apart from that, I only found one typo. I didn't even write it down because it simply needed a space. It didn't affect my reading experience at all. All in all, I give this book 4. I recommend this book to anyone like me, who is interested in starting a nature journal.
Apr 12, Josh rated it liked it Recommends it for: Naturalists, birders, outdoorsmen, etc. Shelves: how-to , nature , non-fiction , outdoor-guides. A nice read with a lot of illustrations to show how exercises can progress. Great book It was straight forward and had a lot of good information to get started and to continue nature journaling.
I found some good tips and advice in the book I had not yet thought of. Jun 18, Kathy rated it really liked it. Great ideas for starting a nature journal, including plenty of encouragement to avoid "perfectionism" and just enjoy the process. Combining hand drawn calligraphy overlaying stunning nature photography! Made by naturalists, for naturalists! Skip to content. Biologist Nathaniel T. As you jot down one observation a day, year after year, your collected field notes will serve as a valuable record of your piece of the planet.
DOWNLOAD NOW » Author : Susan Leigh Tomlinson Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: Category: Nature Page: View: A one-of-a-kind, art-filled how-to guide geared to wildlife students and naturalists, based on the author's college coursePages from actual field notebooks clearly illustrate what works and whyHints and advice for outdoorspeople with even limited artistic skillsFor nature-lovers, birders, and students of wildlife and biology, keeping a field notebook is essential to accurately recording outdoor observations.
This unique guide offers instruction on how to do it--what to look for, what information should be recorded and how to organize it, basic drawing skills using line and color, and incorporating maps and charts, as well as advice on equipment to take in the field and using conventional field guides.
A colorful book that will teach and inspire. This lined notebook with High-quality matte cover, perfect gift idea for girls who love about nature. This lined notebook with High-quality matte cover, perfect gift idea for women and girls who love about nature.
The papers, written under divers moods and circumstances, possess at least the merit of variety. I have not hesitated to include under the designation of a biologist's studies, such diverse topics as a diatribe against the unlawful practice of medicine, and a visit to the great emporium of Wild zoology in the East End of London.
Similarly, I have regarded as interesting enough in a general sense, and have accordingly included in this volume two papers on the aids which Science is prepared to give to the legal Nemesis in the pursuit of the criminal. If the book may be found capable of imparting in some degree a taste for higher natural history studies; or if it may succeed even in profitably whiling away the tedium of a lengthy journey, or an hour wherein there is nothing to do.
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