Endorsements

Vera's book is a major contribution to a stimulating debate. Forest Ecology and Management, June 2002 "Inspirational, scholarly and supremely well-argued", Keith Alexander, woodland specialist, British National Trust "One of those potentially paradigm-shift books", Keith Kirby, woodland ecologist, English Nature "A magnificent book, a landmark book, of the very greatest importance to ecology and conservation". Francis Rose, a leading British field botanist "One man is challenging the time-honoured picture of the landscape our ancestors inhabited". Gail Vines, New Scientist, 7 September 2002 "How has the landscape of Europe changed? In pre-agricultural times, was it largely dense forest as is often assumed? Vera has provided an alternative interpretation..." William J Sutherland, Nature, 22 August 2002 "F W M Vera has written a provocative and simulating book". "It should be read by all concerned with forest and landscape ecology and conservation".Journal of Biogeography, September 2002 "Grazing Ecology and Forest History is an important and fascinating book and it has been published not a moment too soon, for the last vestiges of "natural" Europe are currently slipping away unrecognized. Technical in nature, it is likely to be read by relatively few, yet so explosive are its implications that it may well set off a revolution". The New York Review of Books, March 2003