I have visited the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine many times in recent years and have driven the same roads and stopped in the same villages as the author of this book, Anthony J. Amato, an environmental historian in the Department of Social Science at Southwest Minnesota State University. I do not know Amato personally and was unfamiliar with his work until this book came my way, but I found The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine to be an exceptionally interesting, enlightening, and authoritative study. The author is a keen observer of human-environmental interactions and plant ecology, as well as a patient reader of historical archives and old journals in various languages, a charming storyteller, and an excellent writer. His meticulous research is reflected in a total of 1,710 endnotes after the book's ten chapters and a bibliography that runs thirty-nine pages.
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