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The Ash and The Beech - The Drama of Woodland Change (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Ash and The Beech - The Drama of Woodland Change (Paperback, Revised edition)
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List price R333
Loot Price R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
You Save R62 (19%)
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From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987 to Dutch elm disease,
our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a
procession of natural challenges. Just when we need trees most, to
help combat global warming and to provide places of retreat for us
and our wildlife, they seem at greatest peril. But these dangers
force us to reconsider the narrative we construct about trees and
the roles we press on them. In this now classic book, Richard Mabey
looks at how, for more than a thousand years, we have appropriated
and humanised trees, turning them into arboreal pets, status
symbols, expressions of fashionable beauty - anything rather than
allow them lives of their own. And in the poetic and provocative
style he has made his signature, Mabey argues that respecting
trees' independence and ancient powers of survival may be the
wisest response to their current crises. Originally published with
the title Beechcombings, this updated edition includes a new
foreword and afterword by the author.
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