The Redwoods
Edition: American edition, revised and expanded edition
Series: Famous Trees Library #1
Publisher: Naturegraph
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Healdsburg, California, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
Description: The Redwoods of California are the supreme achievement of tree growth in the world. Magnificent, wonderful, fabulous, they are unimaginable to those who have never entered the vaulted groves of the Coast Redwoods or gazed in wonder at the giants of the high sierra. The oldest living things on earch, many of them have seen 4000 years, forty centuries, come and go.

In this book, with its superb pictures, the reader may share, for a time, the delight, the sense of awe and the refreshment of spirit which comes to all those who visit the famous Redwoods. The text is a veritable mine of information, and the author, one of the foremost living foresters, matches his scientific knowledge with a passionate sense of the beauty and value of the glorious natural heritage here portrayed.

The original, version of The Redwoods was universally acchimed and quickly went out of print. It was not re-issued due to the war but afte re-visiting California in 1958 Richard St. Barbe Baker revised, expanded, and added new photographs to the first edition. This new book is the result. Reviewing the original work, the Times Literary Supplement said that these trees “could scarcely find a more fiting chronicler than the founder of The Men of The Trees”.
Table of contents: title: General Introduction
pagenum: 7; title: Preface
pagenum: 9; label: 1
title: Let There Be Light
pagenum: 23; label: 2
title: Among The Giants
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: The Balance Of Nature
pagenum: 53; label: 4
title: The Coast Redwoods
pagenum: 71; label: 5
title: Lesser Tree Brethren
pagenum: 99; label: 6
title: The Gate Of Paradise
pagenum: 122; label: 7
title: Among The Immortals
pagenum: 137; title: Famous Trees Library
pagenum: 147; title: Appendix - Trees and Plants in Association With The Redwoods
pagenum: 153; title: Index
pagenum: 157