A beautiful gift edition of this classic fable about one man's quest
to create a forest.
In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept,
desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called
Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then
planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness. Ten
years later, after the war, he visits the shepherd again and sees the
young forest he has created spreading slowly over the valley. Elzéard's
solitary, silent work continues and the narrator returns year after year
to see the miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant, green landscape
that is a testament to one man's creative instinct.