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Listen to the Trees (Hardcover, Revised)
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Listen to the Trees (Hardcover, Revised)
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Loot Price R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
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In his introduction, Don MacCaskill wrote modestly, 'I think I
became a naturalist'. He was, in fact, one of Scotland's foremost
naturalists and a remarkable wildlife photographer as well. In a
flashback to his early years in Kilmartin, a village in
Argyllshire, we learn of his awakening interest in man's
relationship with the wildlife all around him - why was it
necessary to kill it? And when accident, or fate, took him into a
career in forestry, an inborn love of trees, both in woodland and
forest, flourished and became his life. Photography came a little
later, mostly as a record of what he was discovering in the natural
world, but is of a remarkable quality in a time when modern aids to
getting that special photograph of mammal or bird did not exist.
This book is an account of his first year at Ardgarten, as a young
forester newly out of college. Full of enthusiasm and confidence,
he thought he knew everything and there was many an occasion when
he had to discover that he didn't! It is an honest and often
humorous account of forestry in the days after the Second World War
when the forest folk of that time, who often lived in isolated
communities 'far from the madding crowd', were genuinely interested
in the work they were doing. There were some fascinating characters
too! Trees are surely the supreme example of a life force stronger
than our own, wrote Don. Some, like the giant redwoods of North
America, live for thousands of years. Some, like our own oaks and
pines, may live for centuries. All, given the right conditions,
will regenerate their species and survive long into the future. Don
wrote, 'I love trees'. It was true - he couldn't help it.
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