The Nature of North Karelia features the province's nature in all its diversity. Magnificent photographs of landscapes, flora and fauna, together with lucid text, guide the reader from the innermost recesses of secluded backwoods to open arable lands, from the heights of quartzite hills to the depths of gorges, from dry esker heaths to lush groves, from rapidly flowing rivers to expansive lakes, from the whitenes of winter to the brilliance of flowers on summer meadows...