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G'day all,
Purely in the interests of science, I have tested
how two Field Guides and the new Atlas stand up to a bit of water.
The new Atlas and the Menkhorst "Field Guide to
Mammals of Australia" both become a solid homogeneous single sticky
mass.
On the other hand the 2001 edition of The Slater
Field Guide can be put into a Microwave, heated in 1 minute
bursts and will dry out successfully. This copy I have dried out successfully twice ! Once
Christmas 2003, after getting every crevice of my body at Lake Lewis (Nth Qld)
thoroughly soaked, and secondly in the recent Mount Isa floods. (I have not yet had the opportunity to check out the
recently revised & updated version)
Does anybody have feedback on how the other Field
Guides suffer water ?
Perhaps our Pelagic specialists can
advise.
Regards
Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW
Qld.
ps When Lawrie Conole did his Field Guide
survey
I forgot to add water resistance as another
reason for my preference for Slater !
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