The Man Who Planted Trees

Author: Jean Giono; wood engravings by Michael McCurdy

Chelsea Green, 2005

Shepherd Elzard Bouffier lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet. After the death of his wife and child, he chooses to devote the rest of his life to a patient and anonymous endeavor, which ultimately adds beauty and sustenance to the human and animal communities in the mountains where he lives.