Key Natural History Titles for the South East
Summer is here and with it more opportunities to experience the fauna and flora in your local area. To
help you enjoy what's on your doorstep we have put together a list of key natural history titles covering wildlife in your area. To
view our list of titles for other regions just click on the link Regional Selections. For further reading about the natural history of Britain we recommend Nature's Calendar, a month-by-month guide to Britain's best wildlife
locations, and Silent Fields which traces man's impact on wildlife
in Britain since the 16th Century.
Our unique "Browse by Geozone" feature which allows you
to view all titles by region is available from our website www.nhbs.com We
hope these titles and the selection below help you to make the most of the wildlife on your doorstep and wherever you travel.
Don Taylor, Jeffrey Wheatley and David Burges
For the new edition every site
ccount has been revised and updated, new sites added, and maps and line
drawings redone. Part of the Where to
Watch Birds series from Helm.
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softcover | Edition 4 | 2003 | #133993 | £14.99
Michael J Crawley
This comprehensive work by one of
Britain's leading plant ecologists is the first of its kind with a
dedicated, regularly updated website with distribution maps and
computerized indexes. All vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and
non-lichenized fungi found locally are described,
with tips on their easy identification,
as well as information on the spatial scales of their
distribution. The best local walks to find particularly species are
also covered, with anecdotes on local history and architecture.
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hardcover | 2005 | #156993 | £50.00
Jim Asher, Nick Bowles, David Redhead and Mike Wilkins
This book presents another milestone in our
knowledge of butterflies in Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. A detailed survey
of butterflies across the three counties over the
period 1995-2000, has made possible for the first
time the identification of changes and trends
since a similar survey completed almost a decade
earlier (1987-1992).
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softcover | 2005 | #160218 | £9.95
John Taverner, Steve Cham, Alan Hold et al
Covers the geology, hydrology, habitat types and
key sites of this southern English county, as well
as a systematic list of species, with
distribution, population sizes, flight times, and
early and late dates. Conservation and recording
are also discussed.
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hardcover | 2004 | #147972 | £28.50
George Green and Martin Cade
Fully revised and updated edition of
tye previous 1997 version. This area is one of the most popular
volumes in the series, covering several new sites and forms part of the Where to
Watch Birds
series from Helm.
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softcover | Edition 3 | 2001 | #120343 | £14.99
Barry Goater and Tim Norriss
Provides comprehensive details on the current
status of nearly 1900 species. Further background
information on foodplants, changes in
distribution, important habitats and conservation
is also provided. Distribution maps are included
for almost 800 of the macro-moths and Pyralids.
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hardcover | 2001 | #127421 | £35.00
Brian Short
This title forms part of the England's
Landscape series.
The most detailed description of why the
countryside of England now looks the way it does,
covering the geology, archaeology and history of
each area and what effects each has had on the
landscape we see today.
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hardcover | 2006 | #152978 | £35.00
John K Fawcett
Based on the author's intensive research extending
over a decade, this book provides an intimate
portrait of the lives of a particular population
of roe deer (in southern England), in need of
special care.
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softcover | 2003 | #138397 | £7.95
The Woodland Trust
A new volume in the series of
guides
from The Woodland Trust that describe and illustrate
101 beautiful woodland
sites in different regions and countries throughout the UK. Fully illustrated
with site maps
and photographs, these are the essential woodland guides. There
is a
map of each site and clear information on how
to find
it, the type of woodland, the facilities available
and what to
look out for on your visit, including
the wildlife
that you may meet there.
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softcover | February 2007 | #165492 | £7.99
Philip Powell
Well-illustrated account of Oxfordshire's
geological past.
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softcover | 2005 | #164293 | £12.99
Edited by Tony Drakeford and Una Sutcliffe
Protected by an Act of 1871 which decreed that they
remain for ever open and unenclosed, the Wimbledon & Putney Commons
comprise about 1,140 acres of countryside, encompassing woodland,
scrubland, heathland, mown recreation areas and ponds.
This book
gives an accessible guide to
the Commons and the clear
and comprehensive coverage of flora,
fauna and ecology offers the
reader a fascinating insight into this unique
area.
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hardcover | 2000 | #111130 | £14.99
Jonty Denton
Another volume in the excellent Surrey
Wildlife Atlas series.
The first summary of the Surrey beetle fauna since
the Victorian County History of 1902. Provides a
brief summary of the changing fortunes of beetles
in the County over the past century and includes a
provisional indication of the status of each
species in Surrey together with information on
distribution and habitat requirements.
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softcover | 2005 | #144282 | £11.95
Patrick Coulcher
The history and wildlife of the South Downs. Also
available from Patrick Coulcher A Natural
History of the Cuckmere Valley which describes the rich flora and
fauna of this Sussex valley.
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hardcover | 2001 | #119163 | £27.50
Adrian Thomas and Peter Francis
Guide to almost 60 birdwatching sites in the
county.
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softcover | 2003 | #165981 | £14.50
Peter Brandon
Sussex is one of the most interesting and
important counties in Britain. This book takes us
on a tour of Sussex's market towns, hills,
castles, seaside resorts, gardens and churches,
from Brighton to Ashdown Forest, and from Gatwick
Airport to the Ouse.
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hardcover | 2006 | #166133 | £50.00
Laurie Fallows and Gay Fallows
This handy paperback
gives straightforward details of the identification, habitat, folklore, and
culinary and medicinal use of
all the common wild flowers
of the Greater Chilterns in Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. Recommended walks
provide an easy way to find them.
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softcover | June 2007 | #165584 | £7.99
Douglas H Kent
Covering the Watsonian Vice-county of Middlesex, this
volume includes a complete summary of its plants, mosses, liverworts and
charophytes, ggiving an indication of their status and frequency, and
listing all records up to 1999.
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hardcover | 1999 | #166238 | £30.00
Jim Asher
This book presents
the findings of a six-year survey organised
by the author and the Upper Thames Branch of
Butterfly Conservation. It contains full descriptions of all the
butterflies found in the three counties.
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hardcover | 1994 | #44958 | £18.95
M Oates, J Taverner and D Green
Presents detailed descriptions of all the
butterflies found in the county. Each species is
illustrated, and the distribution, habitat and
food plant, major sites, population trend and
size, flight period, and earliest and latest dates
are all detailed for the period 1990-1999.
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hardcover | 2000 | #114437 | £28.50
John Killick, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell
This flora includes comphrehensive
information on the distribution, habitats and status of flowering plants,
ferns, mosses and liverworts.
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hardcover | 1998 | #44147 | £45.00
Anne Brewis, Francis Rose and Paul Bowman
This comprehensive flora covers
the occurrence in the county (excluding the Isle of
Wight) of all vascular plants, as well as providing full
lists of bryophytes and lichens.
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hardcover | 1996 | #25880 | £35.00
We hope you found plenty of interesting titles in our selection; please visit our website www.nhbs.com and view our unique "Geozone" feature which allows you to view all titles by their appropriate region.
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