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About this book
'Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities …'
Written by one of Britain's best-known naturalists, Woodlands offers a fascinating new insight into the trees of the British landscape that have filled us with awe and inspiration throughout the centuries.
Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in buildings and ships, and how woodland has been portrayed in pictures and photographs, Rackham traces British woodland through the ages, from the evolution of wildwood, through man's effect on the landscape, modern forestry and its legacy, and recent conservation efforts and their effects.
In his lively and thoroughly engaging style, Rackham explores woodlands and their history, through names, surveys, mapping and legal documents, archaeology, photographs and works of art, thus offering an utterly compelling insight into British woodlands and how they have come to shape a national obsession.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Stuart Max Walters 1920–2005
- Author’s Foreword and Acknowledgements
- 1 The Constant Spring: What Trees and Woods Are and How They Behave
- 2 Some Less Familiar Properties of Trees: Roots, Partnerships, Longevity, Tree Rings, Sap-Sucking, Fire
- 3 Outline of Woodland History
- 4 Pollen Analysis and Wildwood
- 5 Wildwood into Woodland
- 6 Of Wood-Pasture and Savanna
- 7 Archives of Woodland and How to Study Them
- 8 Archaeology and Land-Forms of Woodland and Wood-Pasture
- 9 Pictures and Photographs
- 10 Woodland in the Field: Evidence of Present Soils, Trees and Vegetation
- 11 Uses of Wood and Timber: Reconstructing the Woods from Buildings, Hurdles and Ships
- 12 Ancient-Woodland Plants and Other Creatures
- 13 Wild and Planted Trees
- 14 Some Types of Woodland: Lowland Zone
- 15 Some Types of Woodland: Highland Zone and Ireland
- 16 Caledonian Pinewoods
- 17 Environment, Pathology and Ecology: Damage, Disease, Defoliation
- 18 Modern Forestry: its Rise and Fall
- 19 Modern Forestry: its Legacy. Plantations as Ecosystems
- 20 On Investigating a Wooded Forest: Blackmoor
- 21 Experiments and Long-Term Observations
- 22 The Recent Past and the Future
- References
- Bibliography
- Tables
- Plate Section
- About the Publisher