The Man Who Planted Trees - Vintage Earth

''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 Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard 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. Elzeard''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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Giono, Giono Jean
• Assisted by: Harry Brockway (Illustration), Brockway Harry (Illustration), Richard Mabey (Introduction), Mabey Richard (Introduction), Barbara Bray (Translation), Bray Barbara (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781784878016
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-801-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Earth
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Provence, France, 20th Century, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest