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Alan Mitchell"s Trees of Britain
368 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1996
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August 18, 2019
I picked this up, honestly thinking it would be something to flick through and then pass on, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The author has a brilliant sense of humour and his passion for trees shines out of the pages. I thought I was a bit of tree-fanatic, but some of the different types and sub-species I had never heard of.
Some of my favourite quotes:
"The Norway Spruce is too dull and inherently mediocre in every respect to detain us long. I can think of only one faintly interesting fact about it, and that concerns only its native range." - ok, maybe he doesn't love all trees!
"Further south, the Mriposa Grove has over 200 trees, the biggest 'Grizzly Giant' at 200/73ft and over 3,500 years old." - that age astounds me!
"They are the coniferous equivalents of the Spotted Laurel, Aucuba, in their resistance to the fumes of Jeyes Fluid, to judge from their use around toilets." - LOL.
It's a book where you learn a lot - a peculiar mix of history, modern geography, botany and biography. The photos are great too, although you do have to flip back and forth to look at the right plate for the paragraphs you are reading.
A perfect example of never judging a book by it's cover - well worth reading.
Some of my favourite quotes:
"The Norway Spruce is too dull and inherently mediocre in every respect to detain us long. I can think of only one faintly interesting fact about it, and that concerns only its native range." - ok, maybe he doesn't love all trees!
"Further south, the Mriposa Grove has over 200 trees, the biggest 'Grizzly Giant' at 200/73ft and over 3,500 years old." - that age astounds me!
"They are the coniferous equivalents of the Spotted Laurel, Aucuba, in their resistance to the fumes of Jeyes Fluid, to judge from their use around toilets." - LOL.
It's a book where you learn a lot - a peculiar mix of history, modern geography, botany and biography. The photos are great too, although you do have to flip back and forth to look at the right plate for the paragraphs you are reading.
A perfect example of never judging a book by it's cover - well worth reading.
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