The Old Man and the Seeds
Author: Maurice Beyer
ISBN: 9781925272857
Publisher: Hybrid Publishing
Year first published: 04 Mar 2019
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback / softback
A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at anearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells oftheir history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals ofgardening and the wonder of Nature.
ISBN: 9781925272857
Publisher: Hybrid Publishing
Year first published: 04 Mar 2019
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback / softback
A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at anearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells oftheir history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals ofgardening and the wonder of Nature.
