Most nature lovers aren't experts in narrow areas but, rather, curious about whatever might turn up. There are specialty books that birders use to identify rare birds and others that botanists use for obscure plants, but most people don't carry ten different guidebooks when they go hiking. This book is for the rest of us, and if you have to take one book along when you go out for a walk in New England, this is it. This guide will help identify a cool-looking mushroom, a weird insect crawling on a log, a delicate wildflower, and an intricate shell on the beach. Birds, mammals, trees, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, sky, fishes, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, and sea shellsit's all here. With authoritative yet broad coverage, using nontechnical and easy to use language and more than 2,000 color photographs, this book is an essential reference for nature lovers living in or visiting Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.