Article: Trees: National Champions.(Book review)

Trees: National Champions. Photographs by BARBARA BOSWORTH, foreword by ROGER CONOVER, essays by DOUGLAS R NICKEL and JOHN R STILGOE

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005, 169 pp. [pounds sterling]25.95 ISBN 0 262 02592 2

Barbara Bosworth has taken seventy atmospheric photographs of American champion trees. Using an 8 x 10 camera the black and white photographs beautifully portray a range of champion trees and their varied locations. A short foreword by Conover states that champions are determined by the size of their circumference, height and the spread of their canopy. The tree with the highest number of points for its species (only native or naturalised ...

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