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The Glorious Life of the Oak

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Glorious Life of the Oak

By John Lewis-Stempel

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About the book

'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain. Many of our ancestors - the Angles, the Saxons, the Norse - came to the British Isles in longships made of oak. For centuries the oak touch...Show more

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ISBN

9780857525819

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Glorious Life of the Oak

Format

Hardcover

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