Ever wonder how porcupines procreate? Where you can best see the northern lights? How many fireflies it takes to equal the light of a 40-watt bulb? The answers-and much, much more-are in this fascinating, indispensable guide to America's Great North Woods.
The Wild Woods Guide is the perfect introduction and companion to one of the world's largest and most beautiful forest regions. Filled with helpful and often little-known information about the plants, animals, rocks, and other natural phenomena encountered in the swathe of forest that stretches from Minnesota to Maine, this guidebook is almost as fun and interesting as actually going out into the woods yourself.
Whether you're an occasional hiker or a seasoned woodsperson, this entertaining collection of facts and tore will prove as useful to pack as it is wonderful to read.
Veteran birders, canoers, and campers, Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner are the authors of the bestselling guidebooks to Ontario's wilderness, Up North and Up North Again. They are members of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists and live in Toronto with their families.

The Wild Woods Guide: From Minnesota to Maine, the Nature and Lore of the Great North Woods

Bennet, Doug

Tiner, Tim

Reference

Harper-perennial

An indispensable guide to learning about things that go bump in the night and are forever sucking your blood in the wilderness. Easily carried in a knapsack or coat pocket, Up North provides fascinating facts about the flora, fauna and other natural phenomena readers are likely to encounter outdoors in Ontario. Illustrations. color photos.

Up North: A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Blackflies to the Northern Lights

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

These enormously popular volumes are the most engrossing and encyclopedic guides available. Combining easy-to-understand natural history, amusing trivia, thoughtful observations, and little-known folklore — about plants, animals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, the day sky, the night sky, and the ground we walk on — Up North and Up North Again are indispensable companions for every cottager, camper, nature lover, and trivia buff.

Up North Again: More of Ontario's Wilderness, from Ladybugs to the Pleiades

Travel

Canada

MCCLELLAND STEWART

A newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Up North books, this is an entertaining guide to Ontario's north for every cottager, camper, and nature lover. Have you ever wondered how porcupines procreate? Or where you can best see the northern lights? Or how many fireflies it takes to equal the light of a 40-watt bulb? The answers to these questions — and many, many more — are in this lively and indispensable field guide to the plants and animals of Ontario's wilderness. Filled with amusing trivia, easy-to-understand natural history, and little-known folklore, The Complete Up Northis the perfect introduction and companion to Ontario's great outdoors. Naturalists Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner answer those questions we have always wanted to ask — and many others we wish we'd thought to ask — about plants, mammals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, clouds, the night sky, the weather, and the ground we walk on. Their infectious curiosity makes Up Northas fun and interesting to read as it is useful to pack for a hike into the woods.

The Complete Up North: A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Black Flies to the Northern Lights

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