Rockhounding New Mexico: A Guide to 140 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites (Falcon Guides Rockhounding) |  | Authors: Martin Freed, Vaskys Ruta
Brand: Globe
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Sales Rank: 511,019
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
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Pages: 272
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Size: New Mexico
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 076274376X
Dewey Decimal Number: 552.09789
EAN: 9780762743766
ASIN: 076274376X
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
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 rockhounding in new mexico August 28, 2009
Richard Boll (yakima valley)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is a very good book to have when going to new mexico to rock hound
Pleased April 1, 2010
J. B. Pons (Corpus Christi, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this publication as a gift for some friends who were going to New Mexico on a trip. We were all disappointed the pictures were not in color, but other than that they just LOVED the book. They found it very useful for finding areas to look for rocks and found great specimens. When they got back they called and thanked me over and over for the book.
 Some Useful Material Here December 20, 2008
hdtravel (USA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
It is nice to see an updated field guide to rock hounding locations here in New Mexico.
There are some interesting and productive sites here.
The text gives GPS coordinates for many sites which is useful.
There are some maps in the book. Some cover one site and some cover multiple sites, if they are close by. It would be useful if a map was available for every site as some can be difficult to find and reading the "Finding the Site" text can be difficult, especially while in the field.
There are a few very bland black and white photos. Come on this is 2009, not the 1940's, color photos and a lot more of them would be very useful to show site locations and some of the material found. How hard is it to pop out the digital camera and shoot a few photos at each location. They did say they visited these sites ??
Much of the text they just used the "Copy & Paste" feature in their word processor over and over. This is especially true of "Precautions & Restrictions" and the "Special Attractions" fields. This is really sad and gets really old very fast. You will have page after page giving you the same verbatim text. Two adjoining pages will have much of the same material just copied. The book would probably only be half its current pages if they eliminated the redundant text. They could have had room for much more useful descriptions of each site and photos if they stopped doing that. They could have used a symbol or icon system to warn about "Precautions & Restrictions" such as snakes or high heat. They could have just listed "Special Attractions" once for at the beginning of each related group of sites.
So, this is a start, but it needs a lot of work. A serious formatting change is needed, more maps, more photos and color and stop doing that "copy" and "paste" stuff !! Come on folks, please revise and put out a new edition.
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