Collins New Naturalist Library — Gower

Contents

Editors’ Preface

Author’s Foreword and Acknowledgements

Text and Picture Credits

Note on Species Names

Part I: A Separate and Special Place

1 A Land Set Apart

2 Naturalists and Visitors

Part II: The Evolving Landscape

3 The Peninsula Emerges

4 The Influence of People

Part III: A Rich Variety

5 South Gower Cliffs

6 The Surrounding Sea

7 Beach and Dune

8 The Worm, the Holms and the Mumbles

9 Inlet and Estuary

10 A Common Resource

11 Pills, Pools and Marshes

12 Woods, Hedges and Fields

13 Caves and Swallets

Part IV: A New Future

14 Protecting Gower

Keep Reading

1 The Gower Flora of Isaac Hamon

2 Local Names of Plants and Animals

3 Designated Sites

4 Geological Conservation Review Sites

5 Wildlife Trust Reserves

6 Organisations and Contacts

References and Further Reading

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