Master wood carver Hugh Wedderburn took me on a quest in search of Grinling Gibbons in the City of London. Gibbons was born in Rotterdam in 1648, where he trained as wood carver and was exposed to the ...
Chronicling the evolution of oaks, Hipp traces the emergence of flowering plants over 100 million years ago, the first acorn’s appearance 60 million years ago, and the oak’s entrance onto the ...