Collins Complete Mediterranean Wildlife, Sports, Hobbies & Travel, Paperback, Paul Sterry
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Price: £24.99
Brand: Collins
Description: The only guide currently available for the region, Complete Mediterranean Wildlife describes and illustrates 1500 species commonly found in the world's most popular holiday destination. Collins Complete Mediterranean Wildlife, Sports, Hobbies & Travel, Paperback, Paul Sterry - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Harper Collins
Product ID: 9780002201612
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Dimensions: 135x210mm
Keywords: Mediterranean,wildlife,identification
ISBN: 9780002201612
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Author: Mr. Spuggie
Rating: 5
Review: A good book to have, especially since I'm thinking of moving to the Mediterranean region. The book is about the same size as other Collins Field Guides, except this one's 1.5cm taller. With respect to the subject matter, the book is way too small. A two or even three volume set would give sufficient room to write a decent description; here there are only four lines to fit the common name, scientific name, size, and description — that's nowhere near enough. I think that more than half of the book has twelve descriptions on the left hand page and twelve photographs on the facing page — that's way too many. That said, I'm still happy to have it on my shelves as a dip in reference book.
Author: Susila
Rating: 2
Review: Having bought a house in the rolling countryside of the Sabine Hills outside Rome, I was keen to identify the many trees, flowers, insects, birds ... the wealth of wildlife of all kinds on the property and in the surroundings - and thought that a 'complete' guide could do just that. Only after it arrived did I discover that the focus is on what the author - undoubtedly a well-qualified naturalist - considers to be the places most visited by northern European tourists. Fine, but not 'complete'. Surely the most glaring omission is that THE iconic tree of Italy,. aptly known as the Italian cypress (cupressus sempervirens), is not mentioned, even in passing. (Happily, later I discovered the pocket-sized Collins Trees of Britain & Europe, which covers the picture-postcard 'narrow' variety and the original broad-spreading one.) But the problems didn't stop there. Throughout my neighbourhood there are persimmon trees with foliage that turns a magnificent deep orange in autumn, the leaves then falling off to leave the still-ripening deep-orange fruit in full view. Not mentioned in the Complete Guide, nor are the varieties of oak, ash, maple and beech found throughout the area - like the intriguing Ashleaf Maple (acer negundo) growing wild in the (touristically appealing) Appennne foothills. However, the book does seem to have ample coverage of wildflowers, and insects; likewise for most of the birds I've spotted. But the little frogs that wait by the doorstep after a heavy rain? and the usefully insect-gobbling geckos that bear no resemblance to the three types presented in the book? Because the author has tried to cram so much into one manageable volume, a lot has been omitted, and even then, the photographs are not as helpful as those in the pocket-sized Collins tree guide, which generally show the whole tree and not just a close-up of the leaves or fruits. On the whole, then: this is a well-written and very attractively produced volume - but it's not what the title promises.
