Please add The Living Forest by H. L. Edlin

[Matt]

Title - The Living Forest: A History of Trees and Timbers
Author name - H. L. Edlin
ASIN - B0000CJWAS
Publisher - Thames and Hudson, London
Publication date - 1958
Format - Hardbook
Page count - 310
Description - This book unfolds the history that lies behind each of our common trees. It tells how the old-established natives like oak and ash, pine and birch, first gained a place in our prehistoric forests, and how men came to know them and to apply each timber to its proper purpose in their crafts.

Then it relates how explorers and merchants venturers, seeking new lands, discovered and brought home fresh trees to grace our parks and gardens. From the Near East we gained the handsome plane, they gay horse chestnut, the majestic cedar of Lebanon. From India, Japan, Alaska and Chile came new spruces, larches, cypressus and the bizarre monkey puzzle, until our woods held all the choicest trees of the temperate world.

Here you may read how men discovered the lofty Californian redwoods, which soar to 365 feet, and the bristle-cone firs, which live in the Arizona deserts for 4,000 years. Here are related the age-old myths concering our venerable churchyard yews, some forty feet in girth and older than the Christian era, the legends of our stoutest oaks, and the wealth of tradition that surrounds the brightly-lit Christmas tree.

[redberfir]

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