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Ancient Forests: A Closer Look at Fossil Wood

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I have been an amateur fossil hunter for 60 years and on rare occasion a book of this quality is printed.

The author states that the book is mostly done about beautiful specimens and is not as devoted to the scientific side of fossil wood. For my interests as an amateur there is a great deal of material on how wood is fossilized and the best description I have ever read on how opalization occurs. I think the author does more than he thinks with scientific information.

If you are at all interested in fossils woods from a beauty standpoint then this is a "must have" book.

His previous book (which I also own) "Petrified Wood" is also in the above catagory.

I don't know how the publisher can produce this book for 85 dollars with the quantity and quality of color plates (1600) and the number of pages (456).

I hope this review has been helpful to the avid amateur collector.

American Forests and his earlier book Petrified Wood are amazingly beautiful books. I have seen a few of the petrified wood samples in museums which are shown in these books, and the photoimages correspond to the authentic samples. I have two other petrified wood photo books that I have loaned out but I don't remember their titles (mostly chapters by German authors). Daniels two books are the very best. Howard McPherson

This is a great book for information on petrified wood. We found it very valuable in identifying several of our specimens.

This is a magnificently produced book with splendid photography of petrified wood. It is like the earlier book, but more so (it has a narrower focus, on wood only, and is a lot bigger). Essentially this is a coffee table book on a grand scale.

It does include information on wood identification, but of present day wood only.

This is a wonderful book. A photographic and scientific masterpiece. The print quality is excellent.

A definitive work on the phenomenon of petrified wood. Ancient Forrests focuses on the science of petrified wood. It has an amazing wealth of photographs. Many focus on the grain patterns and the amazing detail that can be found in the many different species of petrified wood. There are also many whole specimens and overviews of famous wood collections such as the Murphy collection at the Rice Museum in Portland Oregon. If you are at all interested in Petrified wood, this is a must-have book, Beautiful!