Observers Trees

Observer's Books

by Herbert L. Edlin

Handy colour guide to the eight-two types of trees most commonly found in Britain.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1937

About the author

Herbert Edlin was an English forester. Born in 1913, he attended Manchester Grammar School, then studied forestry at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities. After managing rubber plantations in Malaysia, he spent five years in the New Forest of Hampshire, planning timber harvesting, raising young trees, and replanting cleared land. After 1945 he edited technical publications for the Forestry Commission, compiled guides to forest parks in Scotland and Wales, and made first-hand studies of woodland crafts. Widely travelled, he was the author of twenty-seven books on outdoor subjects.