Flower of Greece and the Balkans - a Field Guide

Polunin, O.

Publication Date: 1987

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In this guide to the flowers of Greece almost 3000 species of flowering plants are named or described, and keyed. The author has travelled widely over many years in the region and has described at first-hand sixteen of the richest plant-hunting areas. Each description is complemented by a double-page spread illustrating characteristic plants drawn by Pat Halliday, and interspersed among the pages on the identification of species are line drawings by Barbara Everard and Ann Davies showing diagnoostic features of selected plants. The outstanding feature of the book, however, is the photographic section - 80 colour plates containing 483 photographs which capture the beauty of the flowers and the natura setting in which they are found. Oxford, New York. Oxford University Press. 592 pp. + 64 color plates, num. line drawings, br. gr. 8 [14 x 21.5 cm] [with 80 pages of illustrations in color from photographs taken by the author and others, 28 pages of line drawings by Barbara Everard and Ann Davies, 34 pages of line drawings by Pat Halliday and maps by John Callow].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flower of Greece and the Balkans - a Field Guide
• Publication Date: 1987
• Binding: Soft cover