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Title: Ferns of the Tropics by Wee Yeow Chin, Yeow Chin Wee ISBN: 0-88192-458-X Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: depends on your interest.
Comment: The first half of this book are general chapters on ecology, propagation, uses, folklore, etc.; the second half consists of about 100 treatments per species. To start with the latter: if you're looking for a guide to identify tropical ferns, this is not your book. Contrary to what the title suggests the area covered is Malaysia only. Then there are too few species with too concise descriptions.
However, as an introduction to tropical ferns, especially to the Malaysion region, it /is/ a valuable book. It gives a lot of background and facts you won't easily find in other books. It's easy to read with good colour pictures. Read it before you go to Malaysia, and again after your return. But in the field you want a completer guid which, admittedly, is hard to find (try to get a copy of Holttum's Ferns of Malaya).

Rating: 5
Summary: excellent
Comment: very good boo

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