The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

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From ancient oaks and great redwoods to lush banyans and imposing kapoks, The Tree Book reveals the anatomy, behaviours, and beauty of these incredible plants and habitats in detail. It’s this tree that claims the third narrative, a sapling plucked by botanist Kostas and replanted in their new English backyard, growing up alongside Ada. Tate Britain’s winter retrospective demonstrated Paul Nash’s extraordinary and enduring feeling for trees.

The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

Includes two Blending Sounds books, five storybooks, a handwriting book, a parent handbook and more.In Shafak’s fictional world, after violence devastates The Happy Fig, Defne and Kostas make love for the first time, clearing away the nettles on a hill behind the taverna – their own tiny hopeful revolt against despair. Download our free Tree ID app for Android and iPhone to identify the UK's native and non-native trees. Most reading schemes in the UK will show what Book Band colour a book is as well as their own reading scheme level. She – my tree is very female – gave me a chance to look beyond tribalisms, nationalisms and other clashing certainties.

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It grew originally in the taverna where Kostas, a Greek Cypriot, and Defne, a Turkish Cypriot, used to meet as teenagers – a restaurant that was reduced to rubble when it was bombed in 1974 – and thanks to this, it knows everything that they’ve been through: the pain of separation, the melancholy of exile.She moved to London with her husband, a journalist, and two children more than a decade ago, after her novel The Bastard of Istanbul sparked a chain of events that led to a trial for “insulting Turkishness” (she was eventually acquitted, though other books of hers have since been examined by Turkish prosecutors on the grounds of “crimes of obscenity”). There are many things that worry me, and one is that the language of politics is full of martial metaphors now. Tudge’s enthusiasm is infectious, and the wealth of knowledge he provides will increase your appreciation for our natural world. But then there came a moment – I’d moved to America to be a professor – when I just took the plunge.

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This kind of longing, she believes, is often triggered by food, which is one reason why her novel is full of enticing descriptions of Cypriot dishes (as you read, you may find yourself longing for a slice of sticky baclava, the “correct” recipe for which is almost as hotly contested as that of hummus). Trees and woods play a vital role in reducing flooding by slowing down the flow of rainwater, absorbing rainwater, and reducing erosion. This is a textbook of trees aimed at arboriculture, horticulture and forestry students studying at National Diploma and Higher National Diploma levels and for candidates of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Diploma in Horticulture and its Master of Horticulture [RHS] Award. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian ‘What do those of us who are immigrants do with our yesterdays?A reference tool for all those who have a passion for trees or who work in tree-related professions. It’s so diverse, and I don’t take that for granted, because I come from a country that has never appreciated diversity. Add the contrivance of small creatures whispering plot points to its branches and for me, coincidence trumped craft. Maybe you also love trees, but more likely you’re just a casual nature lover who’s intrigued by this list.

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With recent media coverage on climate change highlighting the global importance of our woodlands and rainforests, there's no better time than right now to immerse yourself in this extensive horticultural handbook for an illuminating blend of the science, culture, and history of trees dating back to the beginning of time. I used to think British people were so calm when they talked about politics, but that calmness has gone. A fierce advocate for equality and freedom of speech, her views have brought her into conflict with the increasingly repressive government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.We’re both slightly anxious, I think, Shafak because she arrived for our meeting a tiny bit late, and me because this cafe in Holland Park is so noisy and crowded (we can’t sit outside because yet another violent summer squall has just blown in). You’ll also get the opportunity to accompany the author on an often frustrating journey of scientific discovery, as she had to push against a male-dominated field that was skeptical of her theories. Starting in 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill lived in a thousand-year-old tree named Luna for 738 days to protect it against Pacific Lumber and the exploitative Maxxam Corporation. I had no idea then what a wych elm might be, but I knew that this strange tree, with the pig’s teeth embedded in its trunk, somehow possessed qualities that were beyond the reach of the car-owning colonialists who thought they owned it. From the once giant white pines of New England to the orange groves of California, Rutkow outlines how trees were essential to the early years of colonialism, and how trees are an essential part of our cultural and literal history.