The Tree
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Overall, I am aware of my debt to my agent, Felicity Bryan; to my editor at Penguin, Helen Conford; and to Jane Birdsell, an outstanding tidier of prose and spotter of solecisms who has made this book much better than it would otherwise have been. Finally, the book has been much enhanced by Dawn Burford’s excellent drawings, almost all taken directly from life. Many thanks to her and to the Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists for introducing me to her. Most of all, I thank my wife, Ruth, who introduced me to Oxford and organized and managed most of our travels. Without her heroic efforts I would almost certainly have petered out at Heathrow.
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*1 The ideas in this chapter reflect those of Dr. Aljos Farjon of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who chairs the World Conservation Union’s Conifer Specialist Group.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tudge, Colin.
The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter / Colin Tudge.
p. cm.
1. Trees. I. Title.
QK475.T83 2006
582.16—dc22 2006006261
eISBN: 978-0-307-35173-9
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