Title: A feast of microscopic beauty
Product review: I had to order this book from the UK Amazon site, but it was well worth it! This is a really well done exposition of a broad range of organisms called "fresh water algae" and their enemies, as well as the alga-fungus community known as a lichen.The excellent photography of Hilda Canter-Lund and the expert writing of her husband, the algologist J. W. Lund, have combined to make up a book that is both textbook and work of art- an unusual combination to say the least! The photos are clear and detailed. It is hard to find any major fault with this book because it is essentially unique. I have seen nothing quite like it on fresh water microscopic organisms.The price ... and the difficulty of getting it in the United States probably precludes it from being generally read, but to the professional or amateur fresh water biologist this book is a treasure.
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