Except that Jan's list is far more comprehensive than Gordon's, and
doesn't have the typing errors found in the new book either! However,
it definitely is a good book and is well worth the expense of having to
buy it as a hardback..
>Quite interesting reading, but I am still hoping for someone to publish
>a book that covers more than the top 20-30 most popular species, and
>with more emphasis on culture and taxonomy.
This would be a great book - great as in *huge*! Allen Lowrie's series
looks like being at least 3 volumes (officially it was a 3 volume set,
but I can't see how he'll squeeze the rest of the species into the last
book) and that only covers Australian species. Now, granted it is a
smaller format than most books but to cover all world species would make
at least 4 large volumes? (I'm guessing...) Apart from the work
involved in putting such a book together, it would probably be
out-of-date in terms of species names (and new plants) before it could
be finished... Still, it would be nice to have such a book :-)
BFN
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