"Elegant and beautiful, rich in history and supremely useful, the ash tree has played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognized part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and beliefs of millions of people around the world. Ash charts the evolution of t…
This book covers those species of tree that have lived for more than a thousand years: the redwood, bristlecone pine, montezuma cypress, the monkey puzzle, amazonian ancients, yew, oak, sweet chestnut, lime, olive, welwitschia, the baobab, kauri, totara, Antarctic beech, the fig…
Among all the varied productions with which Nature has adorned the surfaces of the earth, none awakens our sympathies, or interests our imagination so powerfully as those venerable trees, which seem to have stood the lapse of ages John Muir, 1868 A fascinating celebration of the…
Celebrates some of the oldest living trees on Earth, from the redwoods in California to the banyan trees in China.
Celebrates some of the oldest living trees on Earth, from the redwoods in California to the banyan trees in China.