Rackham, Oliver. Ancient Woodland. Its history, vegetation and uses in England. New. Ed. Pub. Castlepoint Press. 2003
pp.xxxvi, 584 with numerous colour and b/w. photos, text figs. and dist. maps. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Comes with a loosely inserted copy of the 4-page A4 illustrated pre-publication flyer for this new edition of ‘Ancient Woodland’, several ‘Times’ newspaper clippings, an extensive memoir by Peter Marren from ‘British Wildlife’ of Aug. 2015 and an extract from the bulletin of the British Ecological Society quoting the words of Malcolm Press welcoming Oliver Rackam into the society as an Honorary Member. Contained in a corrugated cardboard box.
Rackham gives detailed historical and ecological accounts of both individual woods and a range of woodland types from prehistoric times to today, and shows how changing woodland management regimes have maintained and modified the woods. He has added 9 brand new chapters since the first edition was published in 1980, and photographs have been re-scanned to improve reproduction.
£150.00 [Ref: 68328]