LAKES, LOUGHS AND LOCHS. By Brian Moss. Collins New Naturalist Library No. 128. De Luxe Leather-bound Limited Edition.

2015 1st edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (153 x 222mm). Ppx,452,ads. Colour photographs, tables and charts, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Full brown leather, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.

Not so much a study of the lakes of the British Isles as a survey of their study, and particularly the advances in methodology made since the 1950s. Chapters include: Romance and reality, limnology in Britain and Ireland; The nature of lakes; Dramatis personae, the small cast members and the big roles; Animals, the names in bright lights; On the edge of the land, the Littoral Zone; The plankton, hazard and survival; The deep, the old, the dark and the cold; People and lakes in Britain and Ireland, damage and repair; Moss's tour, an itinerary among the lakes of Britain and Ireland; The future of the lakes of Britain and Ireland. New Naturalist No. 128.