Product Description

This book is a celebration of one of the most widespread, beautiful, useful, and inspiring of trees -- the birch, a group of species that occur across the middle and high latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The author provides an overview of birch ecology and then shifts his focus to the economic, social and spiritual roles of the birch among peoples of North America, Europe, and Asia. The book concludes with a discussion of the birch in art and literature, and the ancient alliance between people and trees. This is an accessible, friendly book containing 17 line drawings by the author-artist.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #849131 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-28
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .26" h x 5.95" w x 8.93" l, .34 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 73 pages

Arboricultural Journal, November 1995
"Buy the book if you are keen on the birch or interested in tree mythology and North tribes, especially the Anishinaabeg (Northern Ojibway)."

The Roanoke Times & World News, October 2, 1994
"Subtitled Bright Tree of Life and Legend, this book details for the reader more natural history, more super-natural history, more quoted verse and prose, and more nicely executed black and white drawings about the tree commonly known as the paper birch than one could possibly believe interesting. Surprise, surprise, the book holds the reader's interest, and causes this reviewer to wonder how Peyton knew that 73 pages are exactly enough to cover the subject."

About the Author
John L Peyton, a native of Proctor, Minnesota, had extensive contact with the Ojibway Indians early in the 20th century. He is well known in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin as an artist specialising in the northern forest: its creatures, people, places, and events.