This book, a super short read illustrated by R Ashish Bagchi ... it was new information that matchsticks are made from aspen trees, and that gum from the acacia tree is used in shoe polish. It made me ...

In fact, he coined the term lertxun-marrak – literally, “lines/drawings on aspen trees,” the name for arborglyphs in Euskara, the Basque language. From the 1970s to the 2000s, ...