Books so expensive!
Just been browsing Amazon, eBay etc. looking for some arb related books to help me learn more about trees/arboriculture and I can't believe how expensive all the books are! Usually you can get stuff pretty cheap on Amazon but the cheapest one I found was £30, going all the way up to £100 plus.
Any advice on where to find some good but reasonably priced books from please?
I already have Urban Trees: A practical management guide and The Tree Climbers Companion books.
Not read any, but the second on the list was written in 1923, so things may have come on a bit since then.
Probably the best solution is to break down into the entire subject into smaller sections; botany - how trees grow, mycology - the relationships between trees and fungi, tree identification, tree diseases, tree structure and hazards, soil sciences, woodland conservation/management etc and then ask what's the best available book to have and save up for that.
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