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A Guardian 'Book of the day' 'A captivating book' - Independent 'Her enthusiasm is contagious.' - Guardian 'A meditation on life, culture and trees.' - FRED PEARCE 'Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands.' - Scotsman For millennia, elms shaped our landscape and our folklore; then they started dying. Few young people have seen a mature elm tree. They once covered great swathes of Europe and North America, but Dutch elm disease has since killed hundreds of millions worldwide, forever altering our landscapes. The Lost Elms is a love letter to our nearly vanished elms and a rallying cry for their long, slow fight back. It tells the gripping story of the scientists desperately trying to halt the disease's relentless progress, and shares the latest research uncovering the intricate links between elms and other species. Woven throughout is a deeply lyrical look at the tree's central place in our history, mythology, poetry and folklore. Crucially, there is hope. Recent breakthroughs reveal elms to be more resilient than we ever imagined. The Lost Elms shows how the strength of this noble tree can offer positive lessons for the future - lessons which one day might help us save other disappearing species.

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Not just an elegy to our lost elms but also a meditation on life, culture and trees. -- Fred Pearce, author of Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste

Not just an elegy to our lost elms but also a meditation on life, culture and trees. -- Fred Pearce, author of Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands. -- The Scotsman Haggith's captivating book is full of personal reflections and anecdotes. It is engagingly written and has important things to say about globalisation, the threat of climate change and the value of biosecurity. -- The Independent This book defies us not to fall in love with elm trees, with the idea of elms and all that their loss and what remains represents to us. -- Kirsteen Bell * Caught by the River * Her enthusiasm is contagious. As someone who began this book with literally no idea what an elm looks like, I was inspired to download the Woodland Trust tree-ID app and resolve to pay more attention to our ligneous friends. * Guardian *

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Mandy Haggith lives in a remnant of ancient rainforest in northwest Scotland and spent 20 years as a forest activist, from award-winning local campaigns in Scotland all the way to the United Nations. She is now an honorary research fellow and lecturer in creative writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She is the author of Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper, five novels and six poetry collections, and editor of the tree poem anthology, Into the Forest.

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