East Coast Trees & Shrubs: A visual guide to 50+ species in Atlantic Canada

by Jeffrey C. Domm (Illustrator)

Get to know your own backyard and neighbourhood, and get acquainted with the trees and shrubs throughout the Atlantic region.

Features:
+ Highly realistic illustrations
+ Details and identifiers for featured species
+ Locations and natural history of heritage trees
+Provincial maps showing the best parks and hiking trails for exploring old growth forests and experiencing the biodiversity of Canada's East Coast.

Genres: Science

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Jeffrey C. Domm is an award-winning illustrator with over thirty wildlife related books to his credit, including the children’s books Atlantic Puffin and The Hatchling’s Journey. He has been teaching illustration and drawing at NSCAD University for over sixteen years and his body of work includes illustrations for Parks Canada, Environment Canada and Canadian Wildlife Service. He lives in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.

Reviews

[Kathleen]

East Coast Trees & Shrubs: A Visual Guide to 50+ Species in Atlantic Canada written & illustrated by Jeffrey C. Domm is a great pocket-guide to get acquainted with the trees and shrubs throughout the Atlantic region.
Some of the features are:
- Highly realistic illustrations
- Details and identifiers for featured species
- Locations and natural history of heritage trees
- Provincial maps showing the best parks and hiking trails for exploring old growth forests and experiencing the biodiversity of Canada's East Coast

Jeffrey C. Domm is a distinguished illustrator of wildlife and nature. He teaches illustration at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has illustrated more than 20 wildlife books, including Pocketguide to East Coast Nature and East Coast Birds. He lives in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.

I highly recommend this colourful, informative book.
5 stars ⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️

[Caley Brennan]

An excellent field guide! The ID photos and illustrations are very specific and helpful plus the fun facts and emphasis on the heritage and Mi’kmaw cultural importance for these trees and shrubs were nice also!

[Maxwell]

perfect.

[Kara]

OK GUYS. This is the best tree book. I've gotten my hands on a few books about trees and this is the first one where I easily identified every tree around me confidently, like the cool dude I am. It has photorealistic illustrations of the bark, leaf, needles and the shape of the crown. The icons are very helpful, and it explains what the tree looks like when young vs mature, the colour changes it goes through, any smell or taste and pictures of any nuts, acorns or cones they have. Excellent book for quickly identifying trees on the east coast!

[Liv]

Overall great book, including one of my favourite things the KEY ID features, but has a lot of non-native species and definitely doesn't cover all species (which, admittedly, I know would be challenging to do!). The art and descriptions are great.