Where the Apples Come From
T.C. Smout: What Makes an Oak Tree Grow, 29 November 2007
Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees
by Richard Mabey.
Chatto, 289 pp., £20, October 2007,978 1 85619 733 5 Show More
by Richard Mabey.
Chatto, 289 pp., £20, October 2007,
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
by Roger Deakin.
Hamish Hamilton, 391 pp., £20, May 2007,978 0 241 14184 7 Show More
by Roger Deakin.
Hamish Hamilton, 391 pp., £20, May 2007,
The Wild Trees: What if the Last Wilderness Is above Our Heads?
by Richard Preston.
Allen Lane, 294 pp., £20, August 2007,978 1 84614 023 5 Show More
by Richard Preston.
Allen Lane, 294 pp., £20, August 2007,
“... history is what the land looked like six thousand years ago, before the first farmers. Was it wall-to-wall forest with a few small gaps, as Arthur Tansley supposed in The British Islands and their Vegetation seventy years ago, or was it a savannah of slowly shifting groves and wide expanses of grass kept open by large ... ”