The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
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The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them: The stunning new nature book from the 'unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands'

The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them: The stunning new nature book from the 'unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands'


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About the Book

For millennia,

elms shaped our landscape and our folklore;

then they started dying.

Few young people have seen a mature elm tree. They once covered great swathes of Europe and North America, but Dutch elm disease has since killed hundreds of millions worldwide, forever altering our landscapes.

The Lost Elms is a love letter to our nearly vanished elms and a rallying cry for their long, slow fight back. It tells the gripping story of the scientists desperately trying to halt the disease's relentless progress, and shares the latest research uncovering the intricate links between elms and other species. Woven throughout is a deeply lyrical look at the tree's central place in our history, mythology, poetry and folklore.

Crucially, there is hope. Recent breakthroughs reveal elms to be more resilient than we ever imagined. The Lost Elms shows how the strength of this noble tree can offer positive lessons for the future - lessons which one day might help us save other disappearing species.

About the Author :
Mandy Haggith lives in a remnant of ancient rainforest in northwest Scotland and spent 20 years as a forest activist, from award-winning local campaigns in Scotland all the way to the United Nations. She is now an honorary research fellow and lecturer in creative writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She is the author of Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper, five novels and six poetry collections, and editor of the tree poem anthology, Into the Forest.

Review :
Her enthusiasm is contagious. As someone who began this book with literally no idea what an elm looks like, I was inspired to download the Woodland Trust tree-ID app and resolve to pay more attention to our ligneous friends. Haggith's captivating book is full of personal reflections and anecdotes. It is engagingly written and has important things to say about globalisation, the threat of climate change and the value of biosecurity. Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands. Not just an elegy to our lost elms but also a meditation on life, culture and trees. This book defies us not to fall in love with elm trees, with the idea of elms and all that their loss and what remains represents to us. Mandy Haggith creates an engaging and inspirational portrayal of this culturally significant and iconic tree . . . As a poet and novelist, her deftly sprinkled and subtle imagery brings the erudite narrative to life, helping to reveal 'the complicated intimacy between people and trees' . . . This heartfelt and enlightening book should interest anyone who loves trees.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781035412341
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Wildfire
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 214 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1035412349
  • Publisher Date: 23 Apr 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The stunning new nature book from the 'unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands'
  • Width: 126 mm


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