Book of Donmon Teith

From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining

Wealth of information on fifty trees, including their attributes, lore, powers, and seasonal correspondences. Book jacket.

Forests—and the trees within them—have always been a central resource for the development of technology, culture, and the expansion of humans as a species.

“Part travelogue and part culinary adventure . . . a quirky, entertaining ramble through the many ways wood lends its flavor to food” (Bob Holmes, author of

The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound u