Britain has 80% of northern Europe's most ancient trees and a remarkable array of woodland types, in particular the huge variety of manifestations and combinations of our native species. Our trees are a defining feature of the British landscape and one of the best-loved aspects of our island. Archie Miles has been photographing trees and woodland for over 30 years and, in this lavishly illustrated guide, he presents a regional overview, highlighting the great diversity of woodlands and hedgerow trees, as well as some breathtaking individuals, many growing in extreme circumstances. Breaking the nation down into ten regions (including Northern Ireland), he covers the weird, the wonderful and the ancient, with superb photographs, keyed maps and a comprehensive reference section giving details of how to find the sites. Whether it be yew trees growing from inhospitable crevices in the limestone pavements of Lancashire, Britain's most northerly ash wood in the west Highlands of Scotland, tamarisk-topped hedge banks in Cornwall, pure laburnum hedges in Shropshire, hollies growing on seaside shingle banks of Kent, or simply the massive 42-foot girthed frame of the famous Bowthorpe Oak in Lincolnshire, the author chronicles the very best of British trees. (20040624)
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Entertaining and practical, this book provides an idiosyncratic guidebook to an important and fascinating part of the English landscape. (Sunday Telegraph )
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A comprehensive survey in words and photographs of the great diversity of trees and woodland accessible to the public in Great Britain (20040624)
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By J. Bestall
Format:Hardcover
This is an exceptional book, containing superb photographs beautifully reproduced. Archie Miles is a well-known photographer with a penchant for trees, with previous publications such as The Trees That Made Britain and Silva, and this latest offering continues in the same vein. His photographic work is technically faultless, combining an intimate knowledge and passion of the subject with superb, crisp, beautifully-lit pictures of the whole range of British trees shown nicely in their respective environments. Many of the locations have to remain secret, as they're on private land. But the other locations are listed in a comprehensive Gazetteer, which even tells you how easy it is to reach them on foot. I hate the term "Coffee Table Book", as it implies the book will sit there looking beautiful but mostly un-read. But be sure if you love trees and know the difference between mundane and exceptional photography, then this book will stay on your coffee table for years, and you'll struggle to put it down!
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By R. W. HULL
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Despite the less than glowing, longish report in one review here, I bought this book and I'm glad I did. The author makes photographs that I really appreciate; I mean they look like an encounter with trees by a person who truly enjoys their presence, not the work of someone working to sell images to stock photography companies that emphasise the gasp appeal of sensational colour and dramatic viewpoints that appear in so many coffee table books on trees. Most of these trees are green, many in shade or shadow, though with lots of sunlight, too, throughout the book. The book is a real inspiration to visit new places and the text is a good introduction in that it makes these places accessible through its obvious enthusiasm, well-selected elements of the background stories of the trees and woods and how to get into them. This is not a tree identification manual; it's a generous gazetteer. If I have chance to visit all these places I shall feel very content. A thank you to Archie Miles.
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