Temperate Forests

Michael Allaby is a very well‐known author of books on science, natural history and the environment, and I have always found his work of an excellent standard. Picking this book up and flicking through its pages one realises that it is a textbook. It is illustrated throughout with colour photographs and diagrams. The text is in three columns with an American feel about it. This appears to be a reprint of a book first published by Facts on File, but no date is given and the most recent book cited in the short reading list (21 items) was published in...