The Ancients : Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania - Andrew Darby Genre:Conservation of the environment he's been shanghaied onto a

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The Ancients : Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania - Andrew Darby Genre:Conservation of the environment he's been shanghaied onto aDeep in Tasmania's remote valleys and mountains grow trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many are thousands of years old, some over ten millennia. Prize winning nature writer Andrew Darby takes us on an island odyssey to discover these ancient survivors: the mysterious King's Lomatia, perhaps the oldest single tree alive; the primeval King Billy, Pencil and Huon pines with their stories of human admiration and destruction; and the