The Man Who Planted Trees

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A beautiful gift edition of the classic fable about one mans quest to create a forest In 1910 while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept desolate valley in Provence a man comes across a shepherd called Elzard Bouffier. Staying with him he watches Elzard 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. Elzards 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 mans creative instinct. This beautiful cloth gift edition to celebrate Jean Gionos 120th birthday is a cast-iron classic work of French literature that has only ever been available in paperback until now. It deserves a wider audience. Gionos hope was to set in motion a worldwide reforestation. This is a hymn to creation and to the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better. Illustrated throughout with Harry Brockways striking woodcuts.