The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest

By Thomas Pakenham

Book Overview

'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum on the family estate, Tullynally in Ireland; his forays to other tree-filled parks and plantations; his often hazardous seed-hunting expeditions; and his efforts to preserve magnificent old trees and historic woodlands. Whether writing about the terrible storms breaking the backs of hundred-year-old trees or a fire in the peat bog on Tullynally which threatens to spread to the main commercial spruce-woods, his fear of climate change and disease, or the sturdy young saplings giving him hope for the future, his book is never less than enthralling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474606792
• ISBN13: 9781474606790
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"