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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2015). 2015 1st edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (153 x 222mm). Ppx,452,ads. Colour photographs, tables and charts, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Full brown leather, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 50 signed & numbered copies. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper and brown cloth slip-case. Signed and numbered by the author. Dust-wrapper signed by the artist, Robert Gillmor. Not so much a study of the lakes of the British Isles as a survey of their study, and particularly the advances in methodology made since the 1950s. Chapters include: Romance and reality, limnology in Britain and Ireland; The nature of lakes; Dramatis personae, the small cast members and the big roles; Animals, the names in bright lights; On the edge of the land, the Littoral Zone; The plankton, hazard and survival; The deep, the old, the dark and the cold; People and lakes in Britain and Ireland, damage and repair; Moss's tour, an itinerary among the lakes of Britain and Ireland; The future of the lakes of Britain and Ireland. New Naturalist No. 128. PREVIOUS PRICE £250.00. Seller Inventory # 53242