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Product Description: A legendary tale written by Jean Giono in the 1950s, sumptuously illustrated, and with an introduction by Michael Morpurgo This is an optimistic tale of a man who brings back to life a waterless and desolate valley. Over a period of many years, the shepherd Elzéard Bouffier plants hundreds of hectares of oak, beech, and birch seeds, transforming an inhabitable region into a thriving forest...read more
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9781908786760 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2014, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: A legendary tale written by Jean Giono in the 1950s, sumptuously illustrated, and with an introduction by Michael Morpurgo This is an optimistic tale of a man who brings back to life a waterless and desolate valley.
9781931498814 | 20 har/com edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, May 29, 2005), cover price $29.95
9781931498722 | 20 anv edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, April 29, 2005), cover price $25.00
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9781933392813 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 17, 2007, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: 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.
9781570625381 | Unabridged edition (Shambhala Pubns, January 1, 2000), cover price $7.95
9781890132323 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, June 1, 1999, cover price $10.00
9781860461170 | Random House Uk Ltd, April 1, 1997, cover price $14.95
9780930031060 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A barren region in France is brought back to life by the efforts of Elzeard Bouffier who, with great determination, plants 100 acorns everyday over thirty years
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780930031367 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, January 9, 1991, cover price $10.95
9780930031343 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 1, 1990, cover price $10.95
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9781582435657 | Italian edition edition (Counterpoint, March 16, 2010), cover price $15.95 | also contains Joy of Man''s Desiring | About this edition: "Peasant civilization possesses as a gift human qualities which philosophical civilizations spend centuries first defining, then desiring, and finally losing.
9781582430447 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A novel of provincial France follows Jourdan, a farmer completely in touch with the wonders of nature
9780865470156 | North Point Pr, November 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An epic tale of the Provence countryside.
Hardcover:
9788449322068 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 15, 2009), cover price $21.95
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9781443728546 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $40.95
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9781406755367 | Read Books, March 30, 2007, cover price $28.95
9781582430515 | Counterpoint, February 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A fictional autobiography captures a young boy's struggles, sacrifices, and successes as he grew into manhood in the Italian countryside of Provence.
9780865470378 | North Point Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: Book by Giono, Jean
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9781933937441 | Ill edition (Heron Dance Pr Inc, September 1, 2007), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A barren region in France is brought back to life by the efforts of Elzâeard Bouffier who, with great determination, plants one hundred acorns everyday over thirty years.
Product Description: The Man Who Planted Trees is the story of a shepherd, Elzard Bouffier, who lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet. He is man of few words who lives in harmony with nature. 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...read more
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9781933937434 | Ill edition (Heron Dance Pr Inc, September 1, 2007), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The Man Who Planted Trees is the story of a shepherd, Elzard Bouffier, who lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet.
9781933937168 | Ill edition (Heron Dance Pr Inc, March 1, 2007), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Man Who Planted Trees is the story of a shepherd, Elzard Bouffier, who lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet.
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9780972869287 | Archipelago Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Serpent of Stars (Le serpent d¢étoiles, 1993; reprinted 1999 Grasset) takes place in rural southern France in the early part of the century.
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9780720636024 | Peter Owen Ltd, January 1, 1969, cover price $23.00
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9780720612127 | Peter Owen Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $15.95
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9789681328221 | Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V., August 30, 2003, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH
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9780720611595 | Peter Owen Ltd, April 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Marceau and Ange Jason, two brothers tied by love after a harsh upbringing, suffer their downfall in a struggle for dominance resulting in sibling rivalry gone terribly awry.
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9781583225240 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A unique collection of stories from one of Europe's best writers takes readers to a small French village in the 1930s to expose the warmth and roughness of this paradoxical community.
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9782070538805, titled "L'Homme Qui Plantait Des Arbres" | Gallimard, August 1, 2002, cover price $19.95
9782070311804 | Schoenhofs Foreign Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $10.95
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9782251170046 | Isd, January 1, 2002, cover price $17.00
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9781860467653 | Harvill Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest.
9781582430676, titled "The Song of the World" | Counterpoint, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In France's Provence region, two men embark on a journey to discover the meaning of life and man's relationship to nature.
9780865470385, titled "The Song of the World" | North Point Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: In a rural region of France near the Italian border--a world controlled by the forces of nature--a man known as the Sailor arrives and asks the peasant Antonio to help him find his son who has gone into hiding after defying the leader Maudrau
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9781860462665 | Harvill Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Panturle lives in the nearly deserted village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands.
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9781583481769 | Iuniverse Inc, March 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: [This book is written in French.
Hardcover:
9780810160279 | Marlboro Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: In An Italian Journey, Jean Giono describes his journey to the land of his father's people.
Paperback:
9780060422431, titled "The American Nation: A History of the United Staes to 1877" | 7th edition (Harpercollins College Div, June 1, 1991), cover price $39.83 | also contains An Italian Journey, The American Nation: A History of the United Staes to 1877
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9781860460241 | Harvill Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780930031763 | 20 anv edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, August 20, 1996), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A barren region in France is brought back to life by the efforts of Elzeard Bouffier who, with great determiniation, plants 100 acorns everyday over thirty years.
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9780865470606 | Reissue edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $35.00
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9788437218687 | Reissue edition (Santillana USA Pub Co Inc, December 1, 1995), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Este libro del escritor francés Jean Giono, ilustrado por Raquel Echenique, es mucho más que una fábula: es un llamado, lleno de poesÃa, a respetar, cuidar y reverenciar el mundo natural.
Paperback:
9780785926016 | French & European Pubns, December 1, 1990, cover price $12.95
Hardcover:
9780930031350 | Har/cas edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 1, 1990), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary.
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9780631142966 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1987, cover price $15.95
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9780720607802 | Peter Owen Ltd, August 1, 1985, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Jean Giono brilliantly reconstructs the Battle of Pavia, the pivotal battle between the Emperor Charles V and the chivalrous king of France, Francois I.
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