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The Most Beautiful Wild Flowers of Turkey

By Erdogan Tekin.
Published by Isbank

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Considering Turkey's astounding flora and the number of able botanists in the field (clocking up on average a new find every five days), there has always been an extraordinary gap in the market, a user-friendly guide to wild flowers for the amateur. This is an immeasurably useful guide, the first of its kind since Oleg Polunin's hardly easy to use Mediterranean Flowers (whose dreadful photos and line drawings were really only useful for the botanist). Above each of Tekin's 700+ photographs, a mere 'selection' as the author puts it, each flower is given its Latin, and where appropriate Turkish and English names. Below there are mini-charts indicating location, height, longevity, altitude and whether or not the plant in question is endemic. The photographs are crystal clear, the printing and paper handsome, and the book hardbound. Perhaps the only deterrent apart from the price is its weight, a pocket destroyer, better reserved for the rucksack. But definitely one to take with you whether heading from Savsat on the Georgian border or Bursa's Uludag. Now it's time for a really good bird book.

Highly recommended by Ursula Buchan in
Wild about Anatolia Cornucopia 38

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