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Old Mister Crow
Join Date: May-2002
Location: Seattle, WA.
Country: USA
Posts: 3,197
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In this beautifully produced volume (worthy of the coffee table, though I hesitate to call it a coffee table book, because it's so well written and so interesting to read), Thomas Pakenham leads us on a tour of 60 of the most amazing trees in Great Britain, many of which have seen, or even played a role in, crucial turns of history. We see, for example, the Yew beneath which Lord Morton plotted the assassination of Earl of Darnley, hustban to Mary Queen of Scots - nearly five hundred years ago. Others were the subject of poets from Elizabethan times to Romantic. Pakenham has done a marvellous job of tracking down the history of these trees, and brings it life along side pictures of their current form.
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In love with trees
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