The Caucasus and its Flowers

The first illustrated work in English on this superb mountain flora.

A lavishly produced new work on the rich flora and vegetation of the Caucasus mountains, ‘the majestic rampart between Europe and Asia, between the Black and Caspian Seas’. Discussion of habitats and plant communities is followed by detailed descriptions and fine photographs of more than 500 Caucasus alpines. It contains stunning photographs and maps, a history of botanical exploration; orography and Geology of the Caucasus; climate information and an index of plant names.

The flora of the Caucasus has been described in detail several times during the last 200 years – probably no one other territory in the world has had so many written floras as the Caucasus. All these Caucasian floras, however, have one common feature: they have no, or only a few illustrations. Up to now, no photographic picture book on the Caucasian flora has been published and The Caucasus and its Flowers is an attempt to fill this gap.