Sylva, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint): Or a Discourse of Forest Trees - Couverture souple

John Evelyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330494547 ISBN 13 : 9781330494547

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover practical, time-tested ideas for growing and using forest trees. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees, by John Evelyn, is a classic guide that blends natural history with hands-on forestry. This edition highlights how forests sustain landscapes, supply materials, and support habitats, all through clear, readable prose.

- Learn how to plant, nurture, and protect trees from winds and pests, with practical tips that survived centuries.
- Explore the many uses of different woods—from furniture and cabinetry to fuel, dyes, and crafts—along with traditional preserving and curing methods.
- Understand historical perspectives on forest management, and how early foresters balanced beauty, utility, and public pleasure.
- Read about grafting, growth, and timing strategies that help trees reach their best form and yield.

Ideal for readers of nature writing, historical botany, and practical forestry, this book speaks to anyone curious about how forests shape land, industry, and daily life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Sylva: Or a Discourse of Forest Trees, Vol. 1 of 2

Among the prose writers of the second half of the seventeenth century John Evelyn holds a very distinguished position. The age of the Restoration and the Revolution is indeed rich in many names that have won for themselves an enduring place in the history of English literature. South, Tillotson, and Barrow among theologians, Newton in mathamatical science, Locke and Bentley in philosophy and classical learning, Clarendon and Burnet in history, L'Estrange, Butler, Marvell and Dryden in miscellaneous prose, and Temple as an essayist, have all made their mark by prose writings which will endure for all time. But the names which stand out most prominently in popular estimation as authors of great masterpieces in the prose of this period are certainly those of John Bunyan, John Evelyn, and Izaak Walton. And along with them Samuel Pepys is also well entitled to be ranked as a great contemporary writer, though he was at pains to try and ensure his being permitted to remain free from the publicity of authorship, for such time at least as the curious might allow his Diary to remain hidden in the cipher he employed.

With the great though untrained genius of Bunyan none of these other three celebrated prose authors of this time has anything in common.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330494547
• ISBN 13: 9781330494547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 459
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