Mythic Woods: The World's Most Remarkable Forests. This item is unavailable.Mythic Woods: The World's Most Remarkable Forests

The planet hosts an extraordinary collection of forest habitats. The rainforests of the Amazon or the Florida Everglades are well known. Many other equally majestic, exotic or beautiful forests are less familiar: the Blue Cedars of the Atlas Mountains, the Cloud forests of the Andes, the Baobabs of Madagascar, the Mangrove swamps of Bangladesh. MYTHIC WOODS explores these enigmatic worlds in lavish photography. The author explores the individual character of each forest and reveals the mysteries hidden within.

Jonathan Roberts was born in Connecticut, USA, in 1943 and grew up in Gloucestershire. He read Greats at Oxford University, before spells as a teacher in Africa and as a freelance journalist and writer in London. From 1973 he fish-farmed in south-west Scotland, and in 1993 moved to a sheep hill-farm in Dorset, where he now lives. In 2001 he published CABBAGES AND KINGS (HarperCollins), an account of how fruit and vegetables originated from wild species. He is married, with a wife and three daughters.