Urban Neighbors Resources:
Suggested Reading

Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are for sale in the Library Shop.

Beebe, William. Unseen Life of New York, as a Naturalist Sees It. With illus. by Donald T. Carlisle. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953.

Boyle, Robert H. The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History. New York: Norton, 1969.

Burton, Dennis. Nature Walks of Central Park. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

* Fowle, Marcia T., and Paul Kerlinger. The New York City Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Area. With a foreword by William Conway; maps by Mark Stein; illustrations by Louise Zemaitis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Pub. Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2001.

* Garber, Steven D. The Urban Naturalist. New York: Wiley, 1987.

* Kieran, John. A Natural History of New York City: A Personal Report After Fifty Years of Study and Enjoyment of Wildlife Within the Boundaries of Greater New York. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. 2nd ed., 1959. New York: Fordham University Press, 1982.

Kinkead, Eugene. A Concrete Look at Nature: Central Park (and Other) Glimpses. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1974.

Knowler, Donald. The Falconer of Central Park. New York: Karz-Cohl, 1984.

Mitchell, Joseph. The Bottom of the Harbor. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

Mittelbach, Margaret, and Michael Crewdson. Wild New York: A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places and Natural Phenomena of New York City. New York: Crown, 1997.

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. The Forests and Wetlands of New York City. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow, with Vernon Gray, Roger Pasquier, and Lewis Sharp. The Central Park Book. New York: Central Park Task Force, 1977.

Stanne, Stephen P., Roger G. Panetta, and Brian E. Forist. The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

* Tanacredi, John T., and Curtis J. Badger. Gateway: A Visitor’s Companion. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 1995.

* Waldman, John R. Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor. New York: Lyons Press, 1999.

Woodlands, Wetlands, and Wildlife: A Guide to the Natural Areas of New York City Parks. Text by Marianne O'Hea Anderson. New York: Urban Forest & Education Program, 1994.

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