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Britain's Habitats: A Guide to the Wildlife Habitats of Britain and Ireland

机译：英国的栖息地：英国和爱尔兰的野生动物栖息地指南

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In recent years, Princeton University Press has published a wide range of books on the natural world. Somewhat surprisingly for an American university press, a significant number of these relate to the British Isles and many are aimed mainly at a general, rather than a specialist academic, audience. A notable example recently reviewed in these columns is the Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland (Crossley and Couzens, 2014) (RR 2014/101), a bird watching identification book that uses digitally enhanced photographs to depict birds in their natural habitats. A number of Princeton's books on wildlife, including some of those relating to the British Isles, have been published under the WILD Guides series branding. WILD Guides appears to be a small British company specialising in the production of this type of book for Princeton University Press. In our last issue, we reviewed their revision of Britain's Dragonflies (Smallshire and Swash, 2014) (RR 2015/143) and have reviews of two similar titles on butterflies and hoverflies in the pipeline. Two of the four authors of the title here reviewed are WILD Guides staff. On the back cover blurb, Robert Still is described as "cofounder", while Andy Swash is stated to be "managing director". The other two authors, Sophie Lake and Durwyn Liley, are "professional ecologists" who work for what seems to be a closely related consultancy company Footprint Ecology. At this point, I find it hard not to digress and make the perhaps gratuitous observation that Lake and Liley, as so often seems to be the case, have names that are perfectly appropriate to their occupation and to the book they have part authored. Lakes are habitats that feature prominently in the Freshwaters section of this book, while Durwyn Liley would seem a good name for a rare wild plant, perhaps one growing in some rocky mountain ledge in Snowdonia.
机译：近年来，普林斯顿大学出版社出版了许多有关自然界的书籍。对于美国大学出版社来说，有些令人惊讶的是，其中许多与不列颠群岛有关，许多主要针对普通读者而不是专业学者。最近在这些专栏中回顾的一个著名示例是《 Crossley ID指南：英国和爱尔兰》（Crossley和Couzens，2014）（RR 2014/101），这是一种观鸟识别书，使用数字化增强后的照片来描绘鸟类在其自然栖息地的行为。普林斯顿大学有关野生生物的许多书籍，包括一些与不列颠群岛有关的书籍，均以《野生动物指南》系列为品牌出版。 WILD Guides似乎是一家小型的英国公司，专门为普林斯顿大学出版社制作此类书籍。在上一期中，我们回顾了他们对英国《蜻蜓》的修订（Smallshire和Swash，2014年）（RR 2015/143），并对管道中蝴蝶和蚜虫的两个相似标题进行了评论。这里评论的标题的四位作者中有两位是WILD Guides的工作人员。在封底上，罗伯特·斯蒂尔（Robert Still）被描述为“联合创始人”，而安迪·斯沃什（Andy Swash）被称为“总经理”。另外两位作者Sophie Lake和Durwyn Liley是“专业生态学家”，他们为一家似乎密切相关的咨询公司Footprint Ecology工作。在这一点上，我发现很难不离题，并做出令人费解的观察，因为莱克和利利似乎经常如此，其名字完全适合他们的职业和他们所写的书。湖泊是本书淡水部分的主要生境，而杜尔文·利利（Durwyn Liley）似乎是一种稀有野生植物的好名字，这种植物可能生长在斯诺登尼亚（Snowdonia）的一些落基山架上。

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