
Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees and the Fight to Save Them
A Guardian ''Book of the day''
''Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands.'' - THE SCOTSMAN
''Not just an elegy to our lost elms but also a meditation on life, culture and trees.'' - FRED PEARCE
For millennia,
elms shaped our landscape and our folklore;
then they started dying.
For the past century, a deadly pandemic has raged across the world, destroying all in its path and outmanoeuvring scientists...
A Guardian ''Book of the day''
''Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands.'' - THE SCOTSMAN
''Not just an elegy to our lost elms but also a meditation on life, culture and trees.'' - FRED PEARCE
For millennia,
elms shaped our landscape and our folklore;
then they started dying.
For the past century, a deadly pandemic has raged across the world, destroying all in its path and outmanoeuvring scientists...
