Oliver Rackham

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Oliver Rackham is a botanist and Fellow and Praelector Rhetoricus of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is also Keeper of the College Silver. An acknowledged authority on the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and pasture; he has written a number of well-known books, including The History of the Countryside (1986) and one on Hatfield Forest. He has also studied and published extensively on the ecology of Crete.

In 2005 he was awarded the O.B.E.

[edit] Selected works

• Rackham, Oliver (2001). Trees and woodland in the British landscape : the complete history of Britain's trees, woods & hedgerows. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 1-84212-469-2.

• Rackham, Oliver (2006). Woodlands. London: Collins (New Naturalist series). ISBN 0-00-7202243-1.