Customer Reviews:
 fantastic little book July 25, 2007
If anyone from "collins" reads this review, find out who's idea it was to stop printing this book, and to bring out a pathetic attemp to replace it, go and sack them. This book is a must for anyone who enjoys the countryside and all it has to offer, It's like having Bill Oddie and Kate Humble in your pockets
Please, please Collins, update this book September 16, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this in 1984 and have used it on walks every year since then. It's an absolutely brilliant book, covering 1500 species in a most convenient format (288 pages, long pocket sized). I've looked at all the more recent pretenders and not one of them comes close to this. And there's the rub. Climate change means that parts of this book desperately need updating, particularly the sections on previously migratory species that have now settled here. Why Collins produced a new, much lesser, volume rather than update this one I'll never understand. At very least, they could have copied the format. Having said all that, get it - there's nothing better.
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