MARTHA’S VINEYARD NATURE GUIDE is the perfect size…
to throw in your backpack, handbag, or bike bag. The guide is packed with full-color photography and drawings, highlighting the most frequently observed plants, animals, and natural areas, with easy-to-read descriptions and organization.
Sylvia S. Mader is a nationally respected scientific author, recognized for her crisp and entertaining writing style. After establishing her home on Martha’s Vineyard, she wrote the first edition of this colorful and interesting guide to assist others in appreciating the Vineyard’s natural beauty. Now you can enjoy her beautifully updated second edition of the Nature Guide.
Sylvia and her husband, Arthur, along with their children and grandchildren, have spent many happy hours walking along the Vineyard’s numerous trails and beaches. They sometimes take binoculars, or sometimes they just enjoy walking and observing the diverse trees, plants, birds, and shells they encounter along the way.
For photographers, you will find Martha’s Vineyard has beautiful light at almost any time of the day—especially early mornings and late afternoons to sunset. Whether you are a photographer or not, this guide will help you identify your subjects and habitats, and you can catalog these in the Nature Guide's handy Observation section.
Sylvia’s novel, A Water Lily Blooms, takes you on a reading tour of Martha’s Vineyard…
The main character, Andie, enjoys walking and riding many of the trails on the Vineyard with her friends—you will see some of these trails on your treks if you visit the Vineyard. Get a Land Bank Conservation Lands Map from the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank. This map will locate many of the trails in
A Water Lily Blooms.
Then, with your copy of Sylvia’s Martha’s Vineyard Nature Guide, 2nd edition in hand, you can locate the lily pond referenced in the title. It is located off Lambert’s Cove Road, shown on the map in the Nature Guide.
Martha’s Vineyard Nature Guide is also available on Amazon.
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The Martha’s Vineyard Nature Guide can be purchased at Vineyard bookstores or on Amazon!
For locations and maps of trails on the Vineyard, get a Land Bank Conservation Lands Map from the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.
Be sure to take along your copy of the Nature Guide, and enjoy and protect beautiful Martha’s Vineyard!