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We did not sail across the Atlantic -- we stitched our way across.
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― The Walkabouts : A Family at Sea
― The Walkabouts : A Family at Sea
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One of the most astounding places elms grow is on Canna, a remote Hebridean island with a valuable safe harbour for sailors (my summer obsession). There is nothing to the south-west of Canna except a few thousand miles of Atlantic Ocean, and that's the prevailing wind direction, scouring the island with salt-laden rain and gales. Yet here I find a craggy slope swathed in elms, sculpted by the wind into wedges, repeatedly clipped to the distinctive wind-raked shape of the slope. In mid-July, the
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― The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
― The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
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