Two vintage books about the natural world by Herbert S. Zim, The Great Whales and Corals.
Herbert S. Zim was a naturalist, author, editor, educator and creator of the amazing Golden Guides series of nature books. Born in 1909, he devoted his life to distilling the wonders of the natural world into books, lecture halls and classrooms, and teaching about everything from the intricacies of coral, to the workings of the parachute, to where and when rare birds can be found in Central Park.
The best thing about these books is their illustrations by Rene Martin and James Gordon Irving. Enter a world of beautiful charcoal and pencil-drawn thirty-foot mammals and great reefs rising in tropical sea. was a naturalist, author, editor, educator and creator of the amazing Golden Guides series of nature books. Born in 1909, he devoted his life to distilling the wonders of the natural world into books, lecture halls and classrooms, and teaching about everything from the intricacies of coral, to the workings of the parachute, to where and when rare birds can be found in Central Park.
The Great Whales, published by Scholastic in 1973.
Paperback.
Corals published by World’s Work in Ltd in 1974.
Hardback.
Condition: VG+