Rhodope Mountains - Dirk Hilbers Albert Vliegenthart Alex Tabak Herman Dierickx Kartoniert (TB)

The book is certainly a good and useful guide if you decide to follow it by the book, but if you use it additionally and want to check if a location is described there you will be surprised to find that there is no index of place names (and no other content oriented index)! I could not believe it at first and leafed through the end of the book. This clearly limits the usability of the book quite considerably!This book is aimed at an international readership, many of which are not native speakers of English and therefore not necessarily familiar with the English names of plants. For this audience the Latin names are the only universal currency. The text sometimes uses scientific names in brackets, but often only the English version is used. There is a species list at the end of the book, which promises to give the scientific names for "all species mentioned in this guidebook", but, alas, this is not true, many, many names are missing, which makes this list a bad joke. For international readers who may also use French, Spanish or other guides it makes no sense to learn all these national language names when one name alone can be used across all languages. (That there are also mistakes is an additional issue: Balkan Lizard Orchid is NOT Himantoglossum caprinum, which does not occur in Bulgaria, but Himantoglossum calcaratum [p. 193].)So, overall, there is considerable room for improvement ...