The Great Outdoors

A Journey in Landscape Restoration

Edited by Philip and Myrtle Ashmole for Borders Forest Trust

Whittles Publishing, £18.99

ethos of this book, and the project it describes, can be summed up as ‘one man’s dream becomes reality’. The man is Philip Ashmole,

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