Language: English
The Man Who Planted Trees (or L’homme qui plantait des arbres’) by French author Jean Giono is a legendary tale written in the 1950’s, which has been translated into a multitude of languages. It tells the touching story of one shepherd, Elzéard Bouffier, living in a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps near Provence throughout the first half of the 20th century, who single-handedly re-forests and resurrects the wasteland around him