A lavishly illustrated journey through all the major bio-geograhical zones of India, with schematic maps showing the vegetated portions of each zone (albeit on a very small scale), and supported by a veritable feast of photographs of the sites as well as portraits of the major species My only quibble is that most of the landscape photographs are not labelled as to location, and a little more information on the ecology and natural history of each location pictured, would have been useful. ( )