Language: Swedish
Trees carry stories and traditions. They symbolize life and death in songs and poems, and have historically given us food for ourselves and our animals, wood for weapons and wagon wheels, and pleasant moments in the cool. In our immediate environment, we often take them for granted - only when they disappear do we realize how much they meant to us. This book is about our long and tender history with two of these trees: the elm and the ash. But especially it deals with the violent breakdown of this friendship over the past decades. Diseases ravage both species and have almost eradicated the elm as a large tree. The ash is attacked on two fronts and may soon be just as bad.
When the elm falls silent is a tribute and a dirge for the trees we love, and a searing reckoning with our directly decisive role in their disappearance.
"The tree pathologist Mårten Lind manages to write entertainingly about elm disease, without detracting from the seriousness of this tree pandemic. Here the reader is treated to both cultural and natural history." SvD
"Despite the gloomy subject, it is a wonderful book, largely because Lind so often turns to fiction to make us understand how we more or less lived in symbiosis with various noble tree species." The evening paper
"Gutta-percha-like storytelling joy." The Express
Product information
Author: Mårten Lind
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789127179042
Language: Swedish
Weight: 508 grams
Released: 2023
Publisher: Natur Kultur Allmänlitteratur
Pages: 325