WHAT IS THAT?: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITAIN'S WILDLIFE, PLANTS AND FLOWERS. By Paul Sterry.

# 2008 1st edition. Large 4to (210 x 280mm). Pp480. Colour photographs throughout, distribution maps, brief bibliography. Laminated boards.

# This is a large (and very heavy!) detailed photographic guide to all the common plants, animals, flowers, fish, insects and fungi encountered in the British Isles. A lot of information is packed in, with thousands of relevant photographs. Chapters include; trees - woodlands, habitats and hotspots; flowering plants - farmland, heathland, grassland and meadows, grassland habitats and hotspots; non-flowering plants - ferns, fern allies and mosses, mosses and liverworts, lichens; fungi; mammals; birds - general, moorlands and mountains, hedgerows and roadsides; reptiles and amphibians; terrestrial invertebrates - butterflies, moths, caterpillars, bugs, flies, bees and wasps, ants, spiders, slugs and snails, life in soil and leaf litter; freshwater wildlife - plants, fish, insects, crustaceans, worms and molluscs; seashore and marine wildlife - seashore habitats and hotspots, seaweeds, fish, molluscs, crustaceans, barnacles and sponges, jellyfish and sea anemones, marine worms and echinoderms.