Book reviews
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Wild Flowers of Eastern Andalucía
by Sarah Ball
Published by Browndown Publications, 7 Mar 2014
Soft cover 302pp
ISBN: 978-0-9563961-1-2
Distributed by NHBS - Everything for Wildlife, Science & Environment www.nhbs.com
A field guide to the flora of South Georgia
by Deirdre Galbraith
WILDguides
Softcover 72 pp
ISBN: 978 0 9564546 0 7
Available from WILDguides and NHBS
Edited by Navjot S. Sodhi & Paul R. Erlich
Oxford University Press
Softcover 360 pp
ISBN10: 0199554234
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780199554232
Woodland creation for wildlife and people in a changing climate
by David Blakesley and Peter Buckley
Pisces Publications
Softcover 171 pp
ISBN 978-1-874357-44-5
Available from NHBS
Botanic Gardens: Modern-Day Arks
by Sara Oldfield
New Holland
Hardcover 240 pp (200 colour photos)
ISBN-13: 9781847735195
Available from NHBS
Japanese Maples 4th Edition
by J.D. Vertrees & Peter Gregory
Timber Press
Hardcover 404 pp (574 colour photos)
Available from Timber Press (UK)
Timber Press (US)
by Ted Jordan Meredith
Timber Press
Flexibind 208 pp (302 colour photos)
ISBN-10: 0881929360
ISBN-13: 9780881929362
Available from Timber Press (UK)
Timber Press (US)
by Graeme Taylor
New Society Publishers, 2008
Softback pp 320 (64 full colour illustrations)
ISBN 978-0-86571-608-7
We are one - A celebration of tribal peoples
Created and edited by Joanna Eede
Quadrille Publishing with Survival International, 2009
Hardback pp 224
ISBN 978-1-84400-729-5
£30 available from Survival
Arable Bryophytes A field guide to the mosses, liverworts and hornworts of cultivated land in Britain and Ireland
Ron Porley
Wildguides, 2008
Softback, 140 pp
ISBN-13: 9781903657218
Available from Wildguides and NHBS
Lostworlds: Adventures in the tropical rainforest
Bruce M. Beehler
Yale University Press, 2009
Softback
ISBN-13 9780300158335
Available from many stockists including NHBS
Flowers of the Forest: Plants and people in the New Forest National Park
Clive Chatters
Wildguides, 2009
Softback, pp 248
ISBN 978-1-903657-19-5
Available from many different stockists including Wildguides and NHBS
2nd Edition, Sally A. Francis
A5 paperback with glossy covers, pp 104
ISBN-13: 0955046629
Available from many different stockists including NHBS
Field Guide to Wildflowers of South Africa
John Manning
Struik Nature, June 2009
ISBN-10: 1770077588
ISBN-13: 978-1770077584
Wild Flowers of the North Highlands of Scotland
Ken Butler & Ken Crossan
Birlinn (2009) pp 189
ISBN 978 1 84158 832 2
Ghillean Prance & Harry Holcroft
Antique Collectors' Club (2009) pp 196
ISBN-10 18514965770
ISBN-13 978-1851495771
The Vegetative Key to the British Flora
John Poland & Eric Clement
Published by John Poland in association with the Botanical Society of the British Isles (2009) pp 556
ISBN 13 978 0 09560144 0 5
Notebooks from New Guinea: Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist (Hardcover)
Vojtech Novotny (author) Oxford University Press (2009) pp 256
ISBN 978 0 19 956165 0
Tropical Forest Community Ecology.
Edited by W P Carson & S A Schnitzer
Wiley-Blackwell (2008), pp 517, £39.99.
ISBN 978 1 4051 1897 2
Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World.
A.J.Dennis, R.A.Green, E.W.Schupp & D.A.Westcott (editors).
CABI (2007), pp 720
ISBN 978 18459 31650
Woody Plants of Western African Forests: A Guide to the Forest Trees, Shrubs and Lianes from Senegal to Ghana. William Hawthorne & Carel Jongkind.
Kew Publishing (2006) pp 1040
ISBN 1 84246 089 7 and ISBN 978 1 84246 089 7
Field Guide to the Rattans of Africa. Terry C. H. Sunderland.
Kew Publishing (2007) pp 66
ISBN 978 1 84246 180 8