The Man Who Planted Trees
A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after surviving the First World War, he visits the shepherd again. A young forest is slowly spreading over the valley - Elzéard has continued his work. Year after year the narrator returns to see the miracle being created: a verdant, green landscape that is testament to one man's creative instinct. miracle he…
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Weitere Autoren: Bray, Barbara (Übers.) / Brockway, Harry (Illustr.) / Mabey, Richard (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78487-801-6
- EAN: 9781784878016
- Produktnummer: 37879125
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D0.4 cm 64 g
- Gewicht: 64
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Jean Giono (Author) Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of André Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including The Horseman on the Roof, and numerous essays and stories. In 1953, the year in which he wrote The Man who Planted Trees, he was awarded the Prix Monégasque for his collective work. Jean Giono died in October 1970.Harry Brockway (Illustrator) Harry Brockway was born in 1958 and studied sculpture at Kingston Art School and at the Royal Academy, where he learned engraving. He makes a living as a stonemason as well as a wood engraver.
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