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Yew - A History (Hardcover, Uk Ed.)
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Yew - A History (Hardcover, Uk Ed.)
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The yew is one of the most fascinating and versatile life forms on
Earth, botanically rich and intriguing and culturally almost
without comparison. In history, mythology, religion, folklore,
medicine and in warfare, the yew bears timeless witness to a deep
relationship with mankind. It is the tree that Darwin often rested
beneath and under which he wanted to be buried until public opinion
decreed a higher-status interment in Westminster Abbey. It was
under the great Ankerwyke yew at Runnymede in Buckinghamshire that
Magna Carta is believed to have been sworn by the barons in 1215.
In 1803, Wordsworth celebrated the great yew in Lorton Vale,
'single, in the midst of its own darkness', a tree under which both
the great Quaker George Fox and John Wesley preached. In many
cultures it is the Tree of Life, and its association with
churchyards in Britain and Europe has given it a particular claim
on the popular imagination as a living link between our landscapes
and those of the distant past.
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