beautifully photoraphed; beautifully written
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This is a gorgeous book sensitively written and filled with information. I love the photographs (though the cover image is not correct, or as lovely as the actual cover). I have learned so much from it, and enjoyed the amazing images of amazing trees in all their moments and seasons! A must buy for anyone who loves trees!
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Great Book shame about the wrong cover here!
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I have had a copy of this book for a while and it is really great. The only problem is with Amazon! I have emailed and received standard 'there's not a human here' office reply...just told to fill in a standard form which doesn't have a catagory for my problem! The problem is that Amazon continue to show the WRONG COVER IMAGE FOR THIS BOOK!!. It never had this cover, so I don't know where they got it from and I have been told it confuses people into thinking Archie has 2 books of the same title and probably therefore reduces sales! I can't believe Amazon are so incompetant...oh ok, I can. SO...to all book-buying public...this isn't the cover but it's a book well worth buying!
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Better than I'd hoped
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I had seen this book often and when I unexpectedly received one as a gift, I could not have been more delighted. The photographs are stunning, the variety of texts very interesting and it has reawakened me to the beauty of trees.
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Beautiful.
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"This book is a work of art, it is a joy to read and clearly has taken alot of blood, sweat and tears to complete, but the result is a book which is informative, yet not just that, it is also a pleasure to read. It can be picked up at any time and flicked through as a reference book, but also it can be sat down and studied closely. A treasure.
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Fascinating, but poorly edited.
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I really enjoyed Silva, and would recommend it, but it wasn't quite as great as I had hoped. The book looks at first like a thing of beauty and craftmanship, and sells itself as such - but on reading it closely, corners seemed to have been cut. There's no excuse for typos, or text running over photographic backgrounds which render it impossible to read. Wait for a second edition, perhaps? I'd also like to see the historical background better documented - it sometimes seemed a little vague, and happy to accept generalisations rather than challenge them.
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