Good Reading

[squisher]

Allright all you hardcore geniuses out there what are your top picks? I want to know what you guys out there consider to be the best reads.
Arborist Certification Study Guide
Arborist Equipment
The Treeclimber's Companion
The Climber's guide
Utility Specialist
Trees Of The Northern United States and Canada
Mountaineering The Freedom Of The Hills


Please climbing or tree related books only. Also where to get them if they don't come from the ISA. I am starving for knowledge and I love to read.

 

[squisher]

Come on no takers? This is a serious question. My local library has very little for arboriculture reading. I have quite a few more books then this and yes I can look at the suggested reads in the study guide but I would like some first hand opinions on which books are the must haves.

 

[OTG BOSTON]

Manual of Woody Landscape plants, by Michael Dirr. This is the ID bible

Diseases of Trees and Shrubs by Sinclaire, Lyon and, Johnson

Insects that feed on Trees and Shrubs, Johnson and Lyon

All of Shigo's books

Get 'em all on Amazon.com

Happy reading

 

[prosopis]

I don't know if you can still get hold of it but The Games Climbers Play is an excellent anthology of climbing and mountaineering literature, think the internet is the best bet . Of modern climbing literature, some of my non-climbing friends reckon Paul Pritchard's Totem Pole is an absorbing read; his short story Deep Play earnt him the money to go and climb the eponymous stack.
Colin Tudge's A Secret Life of Trees is definitely a cover to cover read, got mine from Waterstones but Borders also have it. Shigo's Modern Arboriculture has some interesting ideas in it, Fungal Decay Stategies of Wood in Trees-Schwarz, Engels and Mattheck is very readable and informative for the non-mycological specialist, again purchased from Waterstones. In fact anything with C. Mattheck name on it is probably worth reading if you have any interest in tree bio-mechanics.
If using the net to buy books doesn't appeal, find the ISBN number for the book and get your local bookshop to order it (may have to be in print). Generally if you have the correct title and author the bookshop should be able to find the ISBN number otherwise its back to the net.
Hope this helps, Matt.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Pirone's Tree Maintenance-Hartman, Pirone, Sall (Clarifies much that's in the ISA study guide.)

The Fundamentals of General Tree Work-Beranek (One of the must-haves.)