Cover of Wildwood

Book 2007

Wildwood

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Language
English
Published
2007
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Human-plant relationships
  • Trees
  • Effect of human beings on
  • Voyages and travels
  • Wood
  • Forests and forestry

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.