The is the first fully-illustrated & fully-mapped guide to the British & Irish flora, covering more than 1900 species. Its restriction to the British Isles alone allows far more detail & more local information, & identification is made easier with the inclusion of maps for most species. Specific details about plants appearing in certain areas & accurate maps are designed to make location & identification easy, & this book also

Includes:: details of local specialities for the Isles of Scilly. Also featured is an illustrated survey of recently disappeared British & Irish plants, some of which may return. With over 5000 detailed colour paintings & more than 1600 maps, this is the most extensively illustrated wild flower guide to Britain & Ireland yet. Coloured, boxed keys to plants in complex or difficult groups are provided to assist identification. The Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland also features information about grasses, which are often omitted in other, shorter books, along with sedges, rushes, horsetails & clubmosses. Ferns, though not strictly speaking flowering plants, are also included. This new edition is fully revised to take into account recent taxonomic changes, as well as changes in status & distribution.

...

This book describes most of the flowers & trees found from Southern Scandinavia down to the Loire Valley in France, & from the Atlantic eastwards to include all of Germany, totalling 1400 species found in the region. Included are over 720 colour photographs supplemented by 200 line-drawings, concise descriptions enabling easy identification, & details of preferred habitat, distribution & flowering time. ...

Field-guide to the flowers of Cyprus with colour photographs brief descriptions of 100 different types of flower. Organised by area for easy reference & with a recognition table that leads you to the correct entry by a simple process of elimination. ...

This book is the standard field guide to the flowers, fruit trees, grasses & ferns found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean. It covers Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, the Balkans, Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria & Morocco
- in all over 2500 plant species are described. Introductory chapters cover the general ecology & climate of the region, & describe the structure of the book & how to use it. Illustrated by renowned botanical artist Marjorie Blamey, & written by leading field botanist Christopher Grey-Wilson, this field guide will enable anyone to identify the wild plants found in this lovely & diverse region.
...

The plant world of the Mediterranean region is remarkable for its great diversity of species & forms. This user-friendly pocket nature guide is organized by colour to help identify over 500 commonly seen flowers, shrubs, trees, grasses & ferns. Detailed descriptions give the common & scientific names as well as the flowering time. They also provide information on characteristic features, occurrence & distribution. As an extra at-a-glance aid over 45 eye-catching ornamental plants are featured on the flaps. The book covers every country with a Mediterranean coastline, including France, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria & Morocco ...

Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves & what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate day to day. How did they find their calories, week in week out throughout the year? What were their staple foods? Where did they get their vitamins? How did they ensure their bodies received enough variety? In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared & cooked their food. This extraordinary journey reveals many new possibilities many of the same food sources are still there for us if only we know where to look. Through Ray Mears` knowledge of the countryside & the research conducted specially for this book with archaeo-botanist Gordon Hillman, we learn many new, useful & often surprising things about the amazingly rich natural larder that still surrounds us. ...

A handy identification guide, sumptuous recipe book & delightful source of inspiration, Wild Food Foraging in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly offers an accessible introduction to foraging in a special & distinctive landscape. It covers over twenty wild edibles
- flowers, fruits, leaves, seeds, shoots & seaweeds
- & will appeal to all who want to access fresh, local ingredients, while enjoying a walk in the country or by the sea.

...

Wild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows & fields, along river banks & seashores, even on inhospitable moorl&. In this definitive book, hundreds of these plants are clearly identified, with colour photography & a detailed description. Roger Phillips also gives us fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plant as well as including over 100 more modern recipes for delicious food & drinks. From berries, herbs & mushrooms to wild vegetables, salad leaves, seaweed & even bark, this book will inspire you to start cooking with nature`s free bounty. `I can safely say that if I hadn`t picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn`t have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then & it inspires me now` Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ...

Wild Flowers, Waterplants & Grasses of the Okavango Delta & Kalahari is designed to provide a handy, easy-to-use- guidebooks for tour guides, tourists & students. The guide is arranged by the various colour of plants & their respective flowers, including plants that are mostly green in colour & plants with white, yellow, red, pink & blueish flowers. The author's aim in producing the guide was to have one book that covered all of the common herbaceous (non-woody) plants of the Okavango Delta, Chobe, Makgadikgadi pans & the Kalahari.A quick reference section at the beginning of the guide provides a photographic list of all of the water plants included, with corresponding page references. The rest of the book is colour-coded & each colour group is presented in alphabetical family groups starting with the Asteraceae & ending with Zygophyllaceae. These families are indicated in colour strips at the bottom of each page. The English, Setswana & Afrikaans common names of each plant are provided where available & there is an index of Setswana names on page 121. The book also focuses on the medicinal, food & other uses of each plant; the inclusion of each plant's use also means the guide acts as an overview 'survival guide' of life in the bush. ...

The romance of France lies deep in the hearts of travellers from Britain. Normandy, Provence, the Loire & the Camargue
- such
...