Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees

by Roger Deakin

Hardcover, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

508.3152

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Collection

Your library

Publication

Hamish Hamilton for Penguin (2007), Edition: First Edition/Third Printing, 416 pages

Description

Accompanying famed British nature writer 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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Paul_Beattie

I bought three copies of this for Christmas for people who I know would not only appreciate it, but needed to have it in their lives. You do not need to be a committed environmentalist to love this book; all the same, it will open your eyes to nature, both home and away.

I couldn't recommend this

book highly enough. It is truely a shame that Deakin is not alive to write more of this work; as a reflection of the English pastoral tradition of writing, there are few to compare.

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LibraryThing member lisaeden

Deakin was a rare talent who made the commonplace magical and powerful. Although the book focuses on the beauty and importance of woodlands and trees, he is really bringing alive the British countryside, but never strays into sentimentality. This is a book i return to every year, and recommending

to others as a must read.

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LibraryThing member Oskar_Matzerath

Roam with Roger, fellow tree tourist, to find all types of apples in the ukraine, to enter the world of walnuts, too, and buried roads and pleaching. Write about your favorite trees this week!

LibraryThing member jennybeast

This is the first Roger Deakin book I have read, but it won’t be the last. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees takes us around the world, from carefully maintained British woodlands to the Walnut forests of Kyrgyzstan. It’s not exactly a straightforward narrative; instead it is a meandering and

beautiful contemplation, on trees, on living and on the natural world in general.

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