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A passionate and informative celebration of trees and of man´s ingenuity in exploiting their resources: the perfect gift for anyone who cares about the natural world.

Trees are marvels of nature, still-standing giants of extraordinary longevity. In a beautifully written sequence of essays, anecdotes and profiles of Britain´s best-loved species (from yew to scots pine), Max Adams explores both the amazing biology of trees and humanity´s relationship with wood and forest across the centuries.

Embellished with images from John Evelyn´s classic SYLVA (1664), THE WISDOM OF TREES is a gift book that will delight anyone who cares about the natural world and our interaction with it.

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´Adam´s enthusiasm is beguiling, his knowledge as bountiful as a beech-mast, and his appreciation of the utility of trees is a pointer to a better world´ The Times .

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Adams, Max
Max Adams is the author of The Wisdom of Trees , The Little Book of Planting Trees and the bestselling The King in the North . A teacher of woodland tree histories, he manages an area of woodland in County Durham, where he has lived and worked in the North-East of England since 1993. www.theambulist.co.uk

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