Volume 50, Number 4 · March 13, 2003
The Secret of Methuselah Grove
By Tim Flannery
Remarkable Trees of the World
by Thomas Pakenham
Norton, 191 pp., $49.95
Grazing Ecology and Forest History
by F. W. M. Vera
CABI, 506 pp., $100.00
The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand
by Trevor H. Worthy and Richard N. Holdaway, with principal photography by Rod Morris
Indiana University Press, 718 pp., $89.95
Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions
by Ashley Hay
Sydney: Duffy and Snellgrove, 275 pp., AU$25.00 (paper)
Deep in the recesses of our imaginations, trees can turn into gnomes and giants—even trapped souls. It's as if at some hidden level trees are imbued with meaning for us, yet because they are so much a part of our lives, we filter out the emotions they can evoke. The full force that trees can have on an unprepared human mind is in fact profound, as British explorers of the Outer Hebrides discovered in 1692.
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