Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees

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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
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Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" - as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls - the reader accompanies Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees. Deakin lives in forest shacks, goes "coppicing" in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback. Along the way, he ferrets out the mysteries of woods, detailing the life stories of the timber beams composing his Elizabethan house and searching for the origin of the apple. As the world's forests are whittled away, Deakin's sparkling prose evokes woodlands anarchic with life, rendering each tree as an individual, living being. At once a traveler's tale and a splendid work of natural history, Wildwood reveals, amid the world's marvelous diversity, that which is universal in human experience.
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-12-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416595328

Country	USA
Brand	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2010-12-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416595328

Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees

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