Adventures with a Hand Lens

by Richard Headstrom

Book Overview

With an ordinary magnifying glass and this book as your guide, 50 adventures in close observation await you. These entertaining nature studies take you on field trips in and around your home, calling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486233308
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Introduction to the use of a neglected tool--the magnifier.

It has always annoyed me that toy shops are full of cheap microscopes but few good magnifiers. Children are more interested in that range of things which are a bit too small to see by eye alone, but too big to put on a microscope slide. Mr. Headstrom here provides a set of 50 "adventures" using an ordinary magnifying glass or hand lens to examine many of Nature's small wonders. It is a brief but detailled guide to the study of insects, flowers, and seeds, with occasional visits to the slimy side of nature; snails, leeches, and the like. Some of the adventures are for the shoreline, others merely to the backyard or nearby pond, but all are fruitful, well-described, and illustrated with line drawings. The book is a reprint of the 1962 edition, but is only charmingly dated. The language is a bit stiff for younger readers, but it would be an excellent guide for the parent/child team of explorers.