# The Ancients

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- Book: [The Ancients](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-darby/the-ancients) ([The Ancients.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-darby/the-ancients.md))
- Authors: [Andrew Darby](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-darby)
- Publisher: allen_unwin
- ISBN: 978-17-6106-923-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Deep in Tasmania’s remote valleys and mountains grow trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many are thousands of years old, some over ten millennia. Prize-winning nature writer Andrew Darby takes us on an island odyssey to discover these ancient survivors: the mysterious King’s Lomatia, perhaps the oldest single tree alive; the primeval King Billy, Pencil and Huon pines with their stories of human admiration and destruction; and the majestic giant eucalypts. He shares tales of the scientists and nature-lovers who identified these ancients and now work to protect them from climate change and fire, offering hope for their future.