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Synopsis

(the new naturalist library. 100).

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 6.25 inches. xiv + 609 pp. Bound in original green buckram, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. 2006 gift inscription on verso of first free endpaper. Illustrated throughout by text figures, including colour photographs, maps, plans and tables. Decorated by series logos on endpapers and title page. The one hundredth volume of Collins New Naturalist series (begun in 1945) was the last major work of the distinguished historical ecologist, Oliver Rackham (1939-2015) of the University of Cambridge. He published several highly acclaimed and influential books on the history of the British countryside and notably of its trees, woodland and wood pasture, in addition to numerous studies of individual woods.