Rare Trees

Sixty of the strangest and most threatened trees on earth, photographed properly and written up with real care. Sara Oldfield and Malin Rivers move from the dragon trees of Socotra to Bornean ironwood, taking in conifers, magnolias and oaks, with range maps, notes on how people have used and named each species, and more than 300 color photographs.

It is a conservation book that never scolds you. The pleasure is in the specimens themselves, and by the end you want to go and stand under one.

Hardcover, 400 pages, 9 by 10.25 inches. Published by Timber Press.