Příroda Berouna mezi Českým krasem a Křivoklátskem – Žák Karel (2023)

Few Czech cities can boast such a comprehensive and expertly crafted monograph that brings readers closer to the living and non-living nature of the area in question. This visually rich publication about the nature of Beroun unfolds the story of a place where humans have been treading their way into the heart of the surrounding nature for millennia – and nature has persistently returned to the territory they inhabited through back doors... ***** The city of Beroun is situated in a place where the protected landscape areas of Český kras and Křivoklátsko come within just four kilometers of each other. The shortest connection between these two large protected areas symbolically runs right through the center of the central Husovo náměstí. Remarkable non-living and living nature lies within the administrative territory of the city as well as outside the mentioned protected landscape areas. The number of rare plant and animal species that grow and live here is so great that Beroun surpasses many protected areas in its wealth of living nature. ***** This is an area of international significance for the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Paleozoic era, a territory where nearly seventy sites were previously mined for mineral resources, where we can view rocks from a range of geological periods covering the last 600...