Stylish, jazzy work from the Belgian art photographer who specialises in analogue processes, including a lot of silver gelatin prints, and who plays with multiple and repeated images. He's b... read more
Professor Simard has spent a life-time in dendrological research and forestry, looking at the ways trees communicate and share nutrients with one another - ideas that have been popularised i... read more
Few books deeply alter the way we view the world but Simard's Finding the Mother Tree certainly did so. In this second book, published in March this year, the Canadian scientist recounts her... read more
A team of eight look after 12,000 trees which include 2,000 species. Many are unique; many more are the most remarkable exemplars of their kind. If Kew had no flowerbeds or glasshouses, it w... read more
A history of our wooded past - the 'wildwood' of our earliest hunter-gatherer ancestors, the neolithic agricultural clearances and the many centuries since of timber consumption.
The over-grazed, debt-ridden farm is on Bodmin Moor, with a vestige of temperate rainforest still remaining. Merlin H-T, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and son of the renowned explorer,... read more
The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more
A journey through twenty-six countries in pursuit of Olea europaea and its kindred. Many photographs and an informed text about the history of the olive, its domestication, cultivars, cultur... read more
Cedars of Lebanon, deodars from India, cypresses from Italy, oriental planes from Greece and Turkey, maples and pines from North America: all were planted on an immense scale from the late C... read more
A scholarly collection of essays in memory of this remarkable man and his work. Contributions range from woodland studies in England to old-growth forests in the Eastern Alps, oak agro-fores... read more
The latest in this magnificent series from Phaidon, which also includes Flower, Plant and Garden: large, with magnificent photographs and illustrations.
Besides being an expert in landmine clearance, the author is prodigiously well informed about tees and their habitats. Here, she gives a remarkable exposition of trees as agents in their own... read more
Trees, their branches and blossom, as we've rarely seen, by a collaborative duo based in Barcelona. These two artists play with our memories, their photographs - exquisitely muted and carefu... read more
Another book of magnificent, hand-tinted photographs from Ms. Moon: ancient oaks of Britain and Europe, the evergreen oaks of the southern United States and acorns. Breathtaking work.
AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more
England still has a greater concentration of ancient oaks than the rest of Europe combined. The Dutch dendrologist's explanation and historical survey is compelling.
Tangled, mossy, temperate rainforest still prevails in some valleys and creases of these isles - though it seems hard to imagine after these months of drought... And the author's name is of ... read more
Seed, leaf, bark, wood, flowers, fruits, symbiosis - and we who depend on them in our fragile and entwined ecosystem. Lavishly photographed and fascinating.
A slim volume containing two dozen leaves: twelve are photographic studies by the great NM of dead leaves, "at the held, drawn-out stage of their metamorphosis", the moment when they curl in... read more
Finely bound in a series of eight by Nicky Oliver of the award-winning Black Fox Bindery, with whom we worked for our special limited and signed edition of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Fr... read more
BM is the pre-eminent photographer of trees. This sequence of 50 luscious duotone prints emerged from a pilgrimage to Madagascar and South Africa as baobabs start to die because of global wa... read more
Three tiny, ancient beings - Moss, Burnet and Cumulus - set out to find more of their kind when their ash tree home is destroyed. Harrison's fine debut for children recalls BB's 'Little Gre... read more
Despite his prominence as a crucial figure in China's struggle against deforestation, Purdom (1880-1921) has been largely overlooked by history. He lived a short, quietly heroic life, campai... read more