This book began as a translation of Academician Takhtajan’s Russian-language book, The Floristic Regions of the World, published by Soviet Sciences Press in 1978. Like other translations of this works, it has been substantially rewritten and transformed by the author during the process, becoming a new book based on the old. At his request, I expanded the section on temperate North America, retaining his emphasis on endemic taxa, but with more attention to the ...
