The Cairngorms : their natural history and scenery / Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson ; preface by V C Wynne-Edwards the vegetation by D A Ratcliffe.

Nethersole-Thompson, Desmond, author
Watson, Adam, 1930-, author
Ratcliffe, Derek, 1929-, author

London : Collins, 1974.

286 pages, 22 pages of unnumbered plates,leaf of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 cm.

With a chapter on the vegetation by D. A. Ratcliffe.
Bibl., p.262-274. - Index.

"This book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the human and natural history of the Cairngorms - its geology, landforms, soils ; climate and weather ; the vegetation of its forest and alpine zones ; fish amphibia and reptiles ; the birds of hills, woods and forests, moors, lochs and streams ; its mammals and invertebrates ; and man himself, as inhabitant over the centuries, as mountaineer, sprotsman and skier today and as despoiler or conservationist."

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500.9412
914.124
A2C

English

Natural history
Scotland
Cairngorms

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