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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rackham, Oliver. Woodlands (DLC) 2007386202 (OCoLC)70059456 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Oliver Rackham |
ISBN: | 9780007405640 0007405642 |
OCLC Number: | 877091540 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 609 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
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 -- Index. |
Series Title: | New naturalist, 100. |
Responsibility: | Oliver Rackham. |
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'Rackham has been a great champion for real woods and against the endless postwar conifer plantations - a campaign now largely won. Here he is writing not as a conservationist, but simply to share his prodigious knowledge of woods and trees with the reader.'The Times'...the 100th addition to the New Naturalist library, and a highly significant landmark in the history of this marvellous series. It's a magnificent compendium of evocations, celebrations and warnings - the harvest of a long lifetime, gathered slowly but with unflagging passion.'Guardian'A huge compendium of a book, the culmination of a lifetime's work...All distinguished scientists should take this as their model.'The Spectator"Magnificent, masterful... For those of us who worship trees, Rackham is our (slightly grumpy) High Druid. A true classic." The List in The Week Read more...

