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Can you tell your Sagittaria sagittifolia from your Apium nodiflorum? Who knows or cares? Well, botanists have to care, but the rest of us rarely need to. Most people like to just walk along a river bank. Do you ever notice the plants living there, and in the water? Can you determine the health of a stream or river just by looking at it? This little book will help, as it takes the inquisitive walker along an illustrated journey of watery habitats and their vegetation. River plants have the advantage of being stationary. They do not swim or run away from observers. They are excellent bioindicators-showing life, health and structural conditions of a river. Learn to look and see, and identify the plant communities which live in a river near you. Hopefully you will be inspired to investigate further....

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What a lovely addition [to the Series] and they really are informative about rivers and river plants. CS-MI have finished the book, and pleased to say, it all looked fine, I assume all the Latin names are correct, as no way can I check!!I found much of it very interesting, and for someone really into their different types of streams, rivers, chalk, silty etc, it will be invaluable. I didn't realise there were so many plants for specific habitats, or so many different habitats, even in a limited area. I thought your illustrations and photos were fantastic. I loved the poem and illustration at the beginning !!! I have no constructive criticism, it all looked really good. SDThese are definitely not books to read in a hurry - reading them feels more like a leisurely sunny afternoon chatting in a pub with a local expert. RHIt was a lovely read. The paintings and drawings certainly stand out beautifully and support the text well. The whole book is well written. I found that there was quite a contrast in the style of writing for the introduction and then the main body of the text. The information in the main text was very academic and I wonder if this book really does fit the 'in between' literature that is mentioned at the outset. I kept wanting an answer to the question in the title a bit more often than was given, although it was well answered throughout. RH

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Tina Bone has worked as a self-employed Desktop Publisher for many years until she changed career to work as a Professional Artist from March 2005. Tina is producing all the artwork for the River Friend Series, line art, colour artwork and photographs, and preparing each book for publication. Dr Haslam is a botanist and river culture, etc., specialist, and the early historical, geological information in this series of books is taken from her previous publications, the most important of which are listed on the River Friend Website: [http: //riverfriend.tinasfineart.uk/about-dr-sylvia-mary-haslam/]

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