Padua's Botanical Garden (p. 50) 
Lavishly illustrated, E.S. Hyam and 
W. MacQuitty’s Great Botanical Gar- 
dens of the World (New York: Mac- 
millan, 1969) includes an excellent 
chapter on the Padua botanical garden 
with a detailed account of its history 
and a description of the garden as 
it is today. J. von Sachs’s classic His- 
tory of Botany (1530-1860) (New 
York: Russell and Russell, 1967), 
translated by H.E.F. Garnsey and re- 
vised by IB. Balfour, was first pub- 
lished in 1890. It has three major 
parts: History of Morphology and 
Classification 1530-1860; History of 
Vegetable Anatomy 1671-1860; and 
History of Vegetable Physiology. A 
continuation of Sachs’s History first 
published in 1909, J.R. Green’s A His- 
tory of Botany ( 1860-1900 ) (New 
York: Russell and Russell, 1967) sur- 
veys plant morphology, anatomy, and 
physiology in the late nineteenth cen- 
tury. C. Thacker’s The History of 
Gardens (Berkeley: University of Cali- 
fornia Press, 1979) is an in-depth ac- 
count of the history of gardens from 
ancient times to the present. Lively 
and well written, it includes a chapter 
on the Renaissance garden in Italy 
and a description of the evolution of 
the modern botanical garden. 
Siberian Cranes (p. 58) 
A source of information on crane 
conservation and captive breeding 
projects is the International Crane 
Foundation’s quarterly newsletter 
published for its members, The Brolga 
Bugle. The last three issues (January 
1981, October 1980, August 1980), 
all available for $1.00 apiece from 
the foundation, at Baraboo, Wisconsin 
53913, feature articles on Siberian 
cranes. D. Alexander’s “Report from 
a Troubled Land” ( International 
Wildlife, June 1980, pp. 45-48), a 
short survey of the status of wildlife 
in Afghanistan, tells of the headway 
conservationists there were making 
with Siberian cranes before the Soviet 
takeover and what has happened since. 
L.H. Walkinshaw’s Cranes of the 
World (New York: Winchester Press, 
1973), the standard text on cranes, 
is available in most libraries. For a 
general text on management tech- 
niques used for endangered birds, see 
S.A. Temple’s Endangered Birds 
(Madison: University of Wisconsin, 
1978). 
Gossamer Odyssey (p. 64) 
The most thorough work on the 
flight of the Gossamer Condor is M. 
Grosser’s Gossamer Odyssey, sched- 
uled to be published in May (New 
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1981), from 
which the article in this issue is 
adapted. Beginning with da Vinci’s 
flying machine and ending with the 
Gossamer Condor's success at the 
1977 Kremer Competition, D. Dwig- 
gins’s Man-powered Aircraft (Blue 
Ridge Summit: Tab Books, 1979) sur- 
veys the history of human-controlled 
flight. A more detailed, comprehen- 
sive treatment of the subject, D. 
Reay’s The History of Man-powered 
Flight (Oxford: Pergammon Press, 
1977) includes a chapter on the Kre- 
mer Competition. Large and colorful, 
S. Dalton’s The Micracle of Flight 
(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 
1977), a step-by-step investigation of 
how winged objects, both animal and 
mechanical, fly, devotes its last two 
chapters to the evolution of human- 
powered flight. M. Hewish’s “How 
Gossamer Condor Was Pedalled 
Through the Sky to Win £50,000” 
(New Scientist, October 6, 1977, pp. 
28-29) explores the aircraft’s success- 
ful design, and M.E. Long’s “The 
Flight of the Gossamer Condor" ( Na- 
tional Geographic, January 1978, pp. 
130-40) features many color photo- 
graphs of the aircraft. “Winged Vic- 
tory of the Gossamer Albatross" (Na- 
tional Geographic, November 1979, 
pp. 640-51) is pilot B. Allen’s account 
of his historic flight across the English 
Channel. 
Vermont (p. 72) 
H.F. Wilson’s The Hill Country of 
Northern New England (New York: 
AMS Press, 1967), reprinted from the 
1936 edition, is a social and economic 
history covering the transformations 
in farm life in the White and Green 
mountains. C.W. Johnson’s The Na- 
ture of Vermont (Hanover: The Uni- 
versity Press of New England, 1980) 
is a readable history and natural his- 
tory of Vermont. N. Perrin’s Vermont 
in All Weathers, with photographs by 
S. Bullaty and A. Lomeo (New York: 
The Viking Press, 1973), is a personal, 
chatty chronicle of what Vermont life 
is like each month of the year; his 
collection of essays on country life, 
First Person Rural (New York: Pen- 
guin Books, 1980), includes chapters 
on fence posts, making maple syrup, 
and buying a pick-up truck. Contrary 
Country (Brattleboro: The Stephen 
Greene Press, 1961) celebrates what 
author R.N. Hill calls Vermont’s “pri- 
vate flavor” and Vermonters’ “trait 
of waywardness.” Mrs. Appleyard’s 
Farm Kitchen, by L.A. Kent and P.K. 
Campion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 
Co., 1977), is a cookbook whose rec- 
ipes of traditional Vermont country 
cooking are sometimes preceded by 
anecdotes of Vermont life. Folklorist 
J. Beck’s The General Store in Ver- 
mont (Montpelier: The Vermont His- 
torical Society, 1980) is a collection 
of anecdotes derived from her tape- 
recorded interviews with store owners. 
This paperback is available for $4.50 
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