People and Woods in Scotland: A History

by T.C. Smout

Book Overview

This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them. It begins 11,500 years ago when the ice sheet melted and trees such as hazel, pine, ash and oak returned, bringing with them first birds and mammals and, soon after, the first hunter-gathering humans. The book charts and explains the almost complete withdrawal of tree cover in Scotland over the following millennia, considers the revival of forests and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617019
• ISBN13: 9780748617012
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.6"