Phillips, Nigel. The Nature of the Quantocks. A landscape of heath, mire & wooded combes. 1st. Ed. Pub. Pisces. 2025
pp.viii, 248 with col. photographs throughout. 4to. New hardback.
An intimate mixture of hilltop heathland, oak woodland set in deep combes, and many fast-flowing streams, combine to create the Quantock Hills National Landscape, Somerset. The book covers the well-known flowering plants and ferns, birdlife and mammals of these magnificent hills. It also explores lesser- known wildlife with chapters on mosses and liverworts, fungi and lichens, and invertebrates.
£36.50 [Ref: 71334]