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,
“... the latter may be. Nevertheless, it is fascinating that a college dropout called Michael Taylor, who worked as a knife salesman and grocery clerk, came to figure out which were the world’s tallest trees: everyone knew they were redwoods, but the precise trees had not been identified. Another student called ... ”