Britain’s Habitats: A Guide to the Wildlife Habitats of Britain and Ireland

In recent years, Princeton University Press has published a wide range of books on the natural world. Somewhat surprisingly for an American university press, a significant number of these relate to the British Isles and many are aimed mainly at a general, rather than a specialist academic, audience. A notable example recently reviewed in these columns is the Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland (Crossley and Couzens, 2014) (RR 2014/101), a bird watching identification book that uses digitally enhanced photographs to depict birds in their natural habitats. A number of Princeton’s books on wildlife, including some of...