The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them

A Guardian 'Book of the day' ' Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands .' - THE SCOTSMAN 'Not just an elegy to our lost elms but also a meditation on life, culture and trees.' - FRED PEARCE For millennia, elms shaped our landscape and our folklore; then they started dying. For the past century, a deadly pandemic has raged across the world, destroying all in its path and outmanoeuvring scientists' desperate attempts to halt it. Dutch elm disease has killed hundreds of millions of trees globally