| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920. By T. C. Smout, Alan R. MacDonald, and Fiona Watson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. xiv + 434 pp. 69 illustrations. $110.00 cloth.
This well-produced book was written by three prominent Scottish historians, but mainly by the senior author, who is the historiographer royal for Scotland. It has been a great pleasure for me to read and, indeed, I wish it had been written years ago so that I could have recommended it during my course on Quaternary paleoecology with special reference to Scotland and humankind's effect on vegetation. Already we have Oliver Rackham's books on the historical ecology of woodlands in England, William Linnard's for Wales and Eoin Neeson's for Ireland. Now, at last, we have a thorough, scholarly account for Scotland and so all parts of the British Isles are covered.	1
The book has sixteen chapters, sixteen maps, thirty-seven figures, sixteen color plates, and sixteen tables. The first two chapters on "The extent and character of the woods before 1500" and "The extent and character of the woods, 1500–1920" are of particular interest to this reviewer. They are followed by chapters on the exploitation of woodlands for various purposes such as pasture, charcoal, and tan bark and chapters on detailed histories of particular regions such as Skye, Rothiemurchus, and Glenorchy. Every one of the color plates is appropriate and attractive.	. . .

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