Re: New Med Book
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: New Med Book
- From: N* T*
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:20:05 CST6CDT
- Priority: normal
Just to second Tim's recommendation of Rackam & Grove's book on the
Mediterranean landscape. It largely concentrates on S Spain, S Italy and
Sicily, and Crete, and draws much of the information on the last area from
Rackham's earlier fascinating book with Jennifer Moody: "The making of the
Cretan landscape" (Manchester University Press, 1996). As Tim says, it's a
scholarly tome but not at all written in a "dryasdust" academic style. It's
available in the U.S. for about $70, which admittedly is not a cheap read.
The Cretan book is less costly but just as good a read.
Nick
Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
