Karoo: South African Wild Flower Guide 6, David Shearing (text) Katryn van Heerden (illustration) It

AUTHOR / ARTIST... ..:David Shearing / Katryn van Heerden

PUBLISHER................: Botanical Society of South Africa, 1994

DATE & EDITION.......:1997 2nd impression (1st, 1994) 

COVER SIZE (mm).....:140 x 215

CONDITION...............:see headings below, peripheral wear to covers, egdes & corners, internally fine

DUST JACKET.............: -

COVERS.....................: soft, good

SPINE.........................:good

END & FLY PAPERS......:

PAGES.........................:173 + index

BINDING.......................: tight

PLATES & MAPS.............: many, endpaper map

INSCRIPTIONS...............:no

ISBN...........................:1-874999-04-x

PUBLISHER PRICE........:-

SYNOPSIS, BLURB........:

Much of the text represents a distillation of the author, David Shearing's, many years of practical experience as a farmer in the Karoo, and the reported grazing value of every species represented in this book has been thoroughly established by him. Each of the 400 odd species has been carefully selected because of its representation and relative importance in the plant community of its area. .The  artist, Katryn van Heerden, has not only portrayed each specimen with superb botanical accuracy, but has been able to capture with great delicacy the floral character of each of her subjects