Tireless travelers and plant hunters, Kevin Hobbs and David West have worked for years for Hillier Nurseries, the largest and most famous shrub and tree nursery in the United Kingdom. In this volume, they tell us in a captivating way the relationship between man and trees, from prehistory to the present day.
From the first boxwood tools built by Neanderthals to the khaki wood used two centuries ago to make golf clubs, the hundred trees in this book remind us, if any were still needed, of the help we receive from them every day, in the form of a tasty fruit or a providential medicine, the most modest piece of furniture in the house or the hyper-technological cork insulation for space vehicles