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The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them

Name: The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781035412341
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The stunning new nature book from the 'unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands'

By Dr Mandy Haggith

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A Guardian 'Book of the day'Winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature WritingShortlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize----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... Read More

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This iconic tree once covered great swathes of Europe and North America; now all but a handful have been wiped out by Dutch Elm Disease. This is the story of our attempt to save the elm, and how its legacy lives on in our mythology and folklore.

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A Guardian 'Book of the day'

Winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing

Shortlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize

----

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035412341

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wildfire

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 214g

Pages: 304

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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.