Woodland Books of the Year'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and
earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' The oak is our
most beloved and most common tree.
It has roots that stretch
back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks
than all the other European countries put together. More than half the
ancient oaks in the world are in Britain. Many of our ancestors - the
Angles, the Saxons, the Norse - came to the British Isles in longships
made of oak.
For centuries the oak touched every part of a
Briton's life - from cradle to coffin It was oak that made the 'wooden
walls' of Nelson's navy, and the navy that allowed Britain to rule the
world. Even in the digital Apple age, the real oak has resonance - the
word speaks of fortitude, antiquity, pastoralism. The Glorious Life of
the Oak explores our long relationship with this iconic tree; it
considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on
the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest
oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories from folklore, myth and
legend.
The Glorious Life of the Oak - John Lewis-Stempel
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£9.99