The Man Who Planted Trees

A sustainably printed reissue of the 1953 classic. 'And so with great care he planted his hundred acorns'. In 1910 while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept desolate valley in Provence a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.. Ten years later after surviving the First World War he visits the shepherd again and sees the young forest he has created spreading slowly over the valley. Elzéard's solitary silent work continues and the narrator returns year after year to see the miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant green landscape that is a testament to one man's creative instinct.. VINTAGE EARTH is a series of books that reveals our ever-changing relationship with the environment. These are stories old and young set in worlds real or imagined that allow us to explore our connection to the natural world. Transformative wild surprising and essential these novels take on the most urgent story of our times.