cheap books on Natural History

Which ones did you buy?

I'm putting my money on "Poisonous Plants of Pakistan"

 

They all sound quite good, but I won't be buying any at this time. I'll wait to learn about the Pakistani Woolly Flying Squirrels in HMW vol. 6

I've been stocking up on zoo books recently (aswell as HMW vol. 1 & 2), got both the Staglands and Cotswold Wildlife Park histories recently, as well as a few guidebooks (including Orana Park 1986).

 

I don't have the Lost Land Of The Dodo, but the other three books are all excellent.

I hadn't heard about Squirrels of the World before, but it's certainly whet my nerdy appetite. Is each species illustrated (where possible)?

 

Land of the Dodo is very good book. I just realised I spent way too much on it. I was interested in Samuel Turvey's book on Holocene extinctions but it's unfortunately already sold out.

 

Very nice - this just got elevated from desirable to essential purchase!

 

Oh wicked Chlidonias, tempting us like this

I may choose something more literary, J A Baker's classic meditation The Peregrine.

Alan

 

That link cost me £55 (the book plus 2cd's I fancied on Amazon). Many thanks (beans on toast for a fortnight now).

 

I got a copy of the squirrels of the world book recently! It's a great a book although I was disappointed they don't list every prevost sub-species! But that's just being picky

 

I look forward to an in-depth discussion on subspecific variation in Ratufa when we next meet!

 

I thought that you were joking about this title zooboy28, but see that it really does exist.

I wonder if the CIA or some other anti-terrorist organization has distributed copies of this book in the areas where the Al Quaeda guys are living in caves and retitled it "Things That Are Good To Eat"?

 

I doubt you can find idiots which don't know their native nature including plants in this region.

 

Absolutely, but if it's before I've sat the exams I'm currently studying for we may have to restrict it to our opinions on all the pretty pictures.

 

I would also like to recommend this recently published book to fellow natural history bibliophiles: [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Owls-World-Photographic-Guide-Guides/dp/1408130289"]Owls Of The World: A Photographic Guide[/ame].

Considerably cheaper and (in my opinion) better than the König and Weick book that came out a couple of years ago - an excellent book in itself, but let down by substandard illustrations.

 

Haha. Well, the war on terror is mired in ignorance on all sides.

 

Also, many of the jahadists within Pakistan are from Saudi Arabia and other places, so they probably really don't know their poisonous plants of Pakistan.