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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees

Autor Roger Deakin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2016
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781416595328
ISBN-10: 1416595325
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Free Press

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Recenzii

Full of delight and joy and wisdom
With this book Roger Deakin can be counted one of the greatest of all nature writers. His beautiful book should serve to make us appreciate more keenly all that we have here on earth
A breathtaking book
A masterpiece which deserves to be read and reread
One of my favourite kind of books. Few books make you change your habits; this one changed mine