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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 558 pages. Signed by author to first page. Moderate wear to edges and corners of covers, small abrasion to inside of front cover. Some greying to page-edges o/w pages clean. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 303 p. : 250 color illustrations ; 23.5 x 29.7 cm ; ISBN: 9519079882; 9789519079882 LCCN: 92-169054 ; LC: QH178.F5; DL1015.4; Dewey: 508.4897 ; OCLC: 37221094 ; 30 articles on Finnish national parks and other beauty spots ; 55 selected topics on animals, plants, geology and landforms ; textured dark green boards, in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents : A chunk of taiga, a piece of tundra -- Traplines and excess lands -- Finland's last wildernesses -- Coastal Finland -- The archipelago sea -- The disappearing woodland meadows -- The prorected apollos -- Eastern gulf of Finland -- Do butterflies and moths migrate? -- The bird skerries of the gulf of Finland -- The migratory rush of arctic water fowl -- The Gulf of Bothnia Coast -- Migrants from near and far -- Dinnish Lakeland -- From Haukivesi to Kolovesi -- The Saimaa ringed seal -- The two divers : setting the mood on a summer night -- The feline predator -- On Karelian bird lakes -- From the river Koitajoki to Ruunaa -- New arrivals from the south-east -- Slash-and-burn -- Rotting the forests -- Vuokatti and Hiidenportii -- Tar burning, a bygone use of forests -- Fire renews the forest environment -- Endangered insects -- The backwoods of Kuhmo -- Wild reindeer and reindeer forests -- Marinselkonen -- Deadwood pine tells a tale -- Beard mosses and beard lichens -- Litojaira -- The bear : Finland's national animal -- Birth and development of bogs -- Koillismaa region -- From Julma-Oklkky to Iivaara -- Finald's national bird -- Riisitunturi -- Life all winter long -- Trees' winter burden -- Candle spruces -- Oulanka National Park -- The orchids of the north -- Eastern and Northeastern Lapland -- From Pyhatunturi to Luosto -- Our most threatened birds -- Peatlands od southern Lapland -- Winter gloom and midnight sun -- The golden berry of the bogs -- The bane of t he cloudberry -- In the wilds of Salla and Savukoski -- Savotta : the culture of the logging camps -- The Tuntsa fire -- Koitelaiskaira -- The wolf, better than its reputation -- The Aurora Borealis : the celestial light show -- Koilliskaira and Saariselka -- The lost fish larder -- The reindeer's year -- Inari Lapland -- Lak Inari -- Vatsari -- The arctic tern : the bird of the long days -- Protected but still endangered -- The Sarmi wilderness -- Pomokaira and Repokaira -- Lapland's summer torment -- Hammastunturi -- The threatened wolverine -- Lemmonjoki -- Nordic gems -- Lapland gold -- The Muotkatunturi Fells -- The arctic lemming -- The waders' remarkable relationships -- Lapland's nightingale -- Sammuttijanka -- Fell birch -- Palsa bogs -- Kevo -- Life on the rocks -- The snowy owl -- Nature's winter coat -- Utsjoki : the far yonder -- Salmon and trout -- Weestern Lapland --m From Yllas to Ounas -- Hunting the white grouse -- Plants of the cold -- The fells in colour -- Western Lapland -- Birds in snow grottoes -- This is Finland -- Index ; spectacular photos ; FINE/FINE. Book.