Man Who Planted Trees

<b>A beautiful gift edition of this classic fable about one man's quest to create a forest.</b> <br> 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 the 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.