The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime’s Quest
- ISBN-10
- 0297866257
- ISBN-13
- 9780297866251
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-10
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Author
- Thomas Pakenham
Description
'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum on the family estate, Tullynally in Ireland; his forays to other tree-filled parks and plantations; his often hazardous seed-hunting expeditions; and his efforts to preserve magnificent old trees and historic woodlands. Whether writing about the terrible storms breaking the backs of hundred-year-old trees or a fire in the peat bog on Tullynally which threatens to spread to the main commercial spruce-woods, his fear of climate change and disease, or the sturdy young saplings giving him hope for the future, his book is never less than enthralling.
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