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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pariah" data-source="post: 1232461" data-attributes="member: 23126">I received my copy of Frontiers over the weekend, and have to say I was very disappointed by it. It really was just a re-hash of the birdguides articles and a few others from various publications. As others have said, the production values were very poor.The entire feel of the book was premature...like it had just been rushed and stapled together. Many of the drawings are very crude sketches and it just left me thinking that "This could have been done so much better".The chapters on finding rarities and looking for new sites was not really relevant for me, as it was something I was already doing (exploring new sites is something I savour).For me the real meat was always going to be the ID chapters..and these fell short in my opinion.The blurb on the book distinctly says "armed with this book, you have a chance of finding them".I honestly didnt feel my chances were improved significantly from reading this (being subscribed to a number of regular publications). It would have been nice to see well produced, proper color plates for the species tackled here, and in that sense the "premature" aspect really stands out.Surely it would have been better to nab some artist or other to research this and produce the goods in a manner that made this book a definitive reference? Not worth the price sticker attached to it I feel and is relegated to just an interest piece on my coffee table.Owen</blockquote>

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