Histories and legends of the trees and bushes
By Bernard Bertrand
Foundations of Venice constructed in Alder, bigger plane
of the world built in Birch, Ash confidant of the shy, Locust tree friend of the
gluttonous, erzatz of coffee makes bays of Holly, Welsh winners of wars thanks to the yew.
At all times and in some society that it is, the
populations used the trees and bushes to manufacture some objects of every day,
of furniture, the frameworks, the bowls, the tools.
But the trees very often offered also their share in
food, in medicines, in games and in legends, all more astonishing the some that
the other. At us, in western Europe, the era of plastic swept, in less than one
half-century, a big part of this knowledge to make stupendous. This book, in its
way, wants to be to be a homage and a memory of these wealths. to rediscover without lingering !
Large size : 22.5 X 33.5 cm, 192 pages, quadrichromy, hard-bound cover, stripping
checkmate.
