Oak: A British History

Second-Hand. ISBN: 9780953863082. Published by: Windgather Press. The authors are concerned with how people have managed and exploited oakwoods over time and with the uses to which oak timber has been put, in ships, furniture and buildings. As practising foresters, they revisit with an expert’s eye the silvicultural techniques of the past – the methods of propagating, raising, managing, coppicing and felling oak through the tree’s life, from acorn to standard.