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Around The World in 80 Trees: An Illustrated Odyssey

03/05/2020
58 min
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Author, Eden Project trustee, WWF ambassador and former BBC TV science producer and commissioner Jonathan Drori has produced a glorious love letter to trees, our most constant and varied companion. Trees shape our lives, bountiful givers of food, medicine, sanctuary – and poisons. From India’s sacred banyan to the perfumed cedars of Lebanon, take an illustrated tour of the world, with trees whose plant science defines each destination’s history, spiritual life and legends

An event from Jewish Book Week 2020.

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Jonathan Drori

Jonathan Drori CBE is a Trustee of both Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens and Honorary Professor at Birmingham University’s Institute of Forest Research. Previously, he was a Trustee of the Eden Project and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and for BBC TV, was responsible for many science documentaries. He is known for his TED talks […]

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Around The World in 80 Trees: An Illustrated Odyssey

03/05/2020
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58 min

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Jonathan Drori CBE is a Trustee of both Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens and Honorary Professor at Birmingham University’s Institute of Forest Research. Previously,...