Contents
one The Natural History of Pine Trees
two Pine Trees in Myth and Reality
three Pitch, Turpentine and Rosin
four Pine for Timber and Torches
six Mythic Pine, Artist’s Pine
seven The Sound of the Wind in the Branches
A sugar pine (P. lambertiana), which the tree’s European discoverer David Douglas called his ‘longed for pine’ species, growing in Yosemite National Park.