A Field Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe: With 60 color plates

by Michael Chinery

Dj has some reader wear with tiny closed tears on upper front edge. Foxing on upper page edges. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Ships fast from California.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

352 pages, Hardcover

First published October 29, 1973

About the author

Michael Chinery is an English naturalist.

He studied in Cambridge where he graduated in natural sciences and anthropology.

He edits Cecidology, the journal of the British Plant Gall Society.

Books:
- Animals in the zoo,
- Animal communities,
- Britain's Plant Galls. A photographic
guide (2011) WildGuides. Old Basing, Hampshire. ISBN 978 190365743 0
- Purnell's concise Encyclopedia of Nature,
Forests, Kingfisher, London, 1992 ISBN 0-86272-915-7


Chinery is well known for his books on insects :

Insects of Britain and Northern Europe, 3rd edition, Collins field guide. ISBN 0-00-219918-1
Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Guide, 1986 (reprinted in 1991)
Butterflies of Britain and Europe, Collins Wildlife Trust Guides.

Reviews

[David Campton]

The Bible for British entomologists. A work of art as well as science.

[Kendont]

There is perhaps no other book better than this when it comes to insect identification in Northern Europe.