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Ancient Oaks: In the English Landscape Hardcover - 2017
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- Title Ancient Oaks: In the English Landscape
- Author Aljos Farjon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardback
- Pages 348
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Date 2017
- ISBN 9781842466407 / 1842466402
- Weight 3.55 lbs (1.61 kg)
- Dimensions 10.6 x 9 x 1.1 in (26.92 x 22.86 x 2.79 cm)
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Kew Publishing, 2017. First edition. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 348, pictorial boards, a very good clean copy, almost as new. ["England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to do with climate or soil factors. This story goes back to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. They created Royal Forests, chases and deer parks, where only the nobility could hunt or keep deer and it was forbidden to cut the trees. This was, if you like, an early form of nature conservation, but for the sake of privileged hunting. Preservation of these oaks further continued through a combination of private ownership of thousands of parks, conservatism of the landowners, overseas timber availability and the absence of ruining wars on the English landscape; the majority of which had been confined to the continent. Modernisation of forestry in England only took hold after 1920, and by that stage too late to destroy…
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