Author(s): John Raven; Max Walters

Botany | Rare, Collectable, Folios

The New Naturalist: A survey of British Natural History. With 16 colour photographs, 28 photographs in black and white and 20 distribution maps.
This is the first book ever published on the wild flowers of British mountains. Readable and authoritative, still an excellent place to start in anyone's investigations of this class of the British flora. Includes Ireland. Chapters include; the pioneers; physical features and vegetation of British mountains; nature of the mountain flora; origin of the mountain flora; Snowdonia and the English Lake District; the Cairngroms and Lochnagar; volcanic hills of Western Scotland; limestones of Northern England and North-Western Scotland; mica-schist mountains of the Central Highlands; Ireland. Appendices list mountain plants and plants occurring commonly above 2,000 feet.

Good condition. Small sticker with previous owners details at top right hand corner of blank first page. Dust jacket has some wear and small tears at edges.