Rackham's call for a radical shift in our attitude to trees; how we plant them, how we care for them. An important and ground-breaking book.
OLIVER RACKHAM OBE FBA is one the outstanding botanical writers of our times. His books include The History of the Countryside, Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape, Ancient Woodland and Woodlands, which was the 100th volume in the Collins New Naturalist series. He is Honorary Professor of Historical Ecology at Cambridge University and has been a Fellow of Corpus Christi College for 50 years. He is also an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society and a Fellow of the British Naturalists' Association.