A feast for the eyes. Carlquist captures the beauty of nature and man in an exquisit volume. Carlquist's sensitivity, appreciation of nature (he is a world class botanist) and his photographic eye captures the bare human anatomy in perfectly balanced, natural settings. His images can compare with the world's great photograpers.

Carlquist photographs men the way nature intended them to be, uncut and naked in the great outdoors. Natural Man is a visual delight.

In a perfect world, men would be allowed to go naked in the great outdoors - and retain their God-given foreskins. Carlquist celebrates the beauty of man the way it should be, in all its wild, natural glory.

The price suggests this is a book for institutional libraries only. This is quite correct. Dr Carlquist has made a career of studying wood of small diameter stems: shrubs, subshrubs, liana's, etc. He has brought together an enormous body of knowledge on the variation in their wood anatomy and came up with many a theory to explain this. This book takes stock of his work up to 1988. Since many of his conclusions are controversial this work should only be read within hand's reach of an extended reference library: food for thought for the specialist!

Note: for those interested in practical wood anatomy (wood identification) the book by R.Bruce Hoadley is a good introduction. For those interested in an academic introduction to systematic wood anatomy the work 'Anatomy of the Dicotyledons' 2nd edition Volume II (1983) by Metcalfe & Chalk is the standard work: a good solid reference.