Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, Elzeard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence in the south of France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape-from one devoid of life, with miserable, contentious inhabitants, to one filled with the scent of flowers, the songs of birds, and fresh, flowing water.

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A parable for modern times, "The Man Who Planted Trees" is a simple and unforgettable tale about perseverance, hope, and humility. In the years before the First World War, in the foothill sof the French Alps, the narrator meets a shepherd who has quietly taken on the task of planing 100 acorns a day in an effort to reforest the desolate region. Over the next several decades, this man's quiet, solitary works comes to fruitionthe region in transformed, life and hope return, and the world is renewed."

V horské vesnici na konci světa, ztrácející se pod závějemi sněhu, beze stopy zmizí Marie Chazottesová. Utekla? Někdo ji unesl? Zabil? Záhada narůstá, když začnou postrádat i dalšího souseda, a ani ten nebude poslední. Situaci přijíždí zachránit nepočetná rota četníků v čele s kapitánem Langloisem. Tajemný Langlois se však ve vesnici nečekaně zjeví znovu, o mnoho let později, a bude mít na mušce starého vlka. Do třetice ho poznáme ještě v jednom souboji, velmi osobním a ryze společenském. Blaise Pascal kdysi vysvětlil, proč nesmíme dopustit,...