Download or read book Books and Naturalists (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 112) written by David Elliston Allen and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied heavily on books. Without their basic function of enabling the different kinds of animals and plants to be described in adequate detail, the subject could never have come into being and gone on to thrive as it does today.