Among the Giants, 9781856755672
Hardcover
Meet Kew’s Tree Gang: Protecting ancient giants in a changing world.

Among the Giants

a year at kew's arboretum (royal botanic gardens, kew)

$73.92

  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    17 November 2025

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Summary

Among the Giants: A Year in the Life of Kew’s Tree Keepers

Stretching across two-thirds of the Gardens, the arboretum at Kew surrounds the glasshouses in a leafy enclave to walk, wander, and discover nature’s beauty. The 12,000 trees rooted in the arboretum represent more than 2,000 species, including rare and ancient varieties. This great collection contains trees as old as the Gardens themselves, many that cannot be found anywhere else in Britain.

But who looks after these…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781856755672
ISBN-10:1856755673
Author:Carolyn Fry, Christina Harrison, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group
Imprint:Gaia Books Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:17 November 2025
Weight:517g
Dimensions:236mm x 162mm x 30mm
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About The Author

Carolyn Fry

Carolyn Fry is a science and environment writer and editor based in West Sussex, UK. She has written/co-authored 11 books on environmental and historical themes, and appeared in the BBC 2 documentary ‘Cruikshank on Kew: The garden that changed the world’, to explain how plants were used to build the British Empire. Carolyn has also contributed news stories and articles to New Scientist, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC History, BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife and more. She is a former Editor of Geographical, the Royal Geographical Society’s magazine. She has worked on a number of title for Kew and most recently published Trees: 10 Things You Should Know (Seven Dials).

Christina Harrison is the former editor of Kew Magazine. She trained as an ecologist and botanical horticulturalist and has an MA in Garden History, for which she specialised in the trees at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She is author or co-author of several books including Remarkable Trees (Thames & Hudson).

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