Wildwood : a journey through trees / Roger Deakin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deakin, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees.

Forests and forestry.

Human-plant relationships.

Physical Description:

xii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Free Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Roots

Staying Put 3

The House-sheds: Camping 9

Study 16

Part 2 Sapwood

The Bluebell Picnic 35

The Rookery 46

The Moth Wood 59

Living in the Woods 69

The New Forest Revisited 76

Oak Apple Day 85

Willow 95

Shelter 105

The Sacred Groves of Devon 110

The Forest of Dean and Wye 126

Among Jaguars 138

David Nash 151

East Anglian Coast 171

Mary Newcomb 179

Driftwood 185

Part 3 Driftwood

The Woods and the Water 197

Pyrenees 203

Wild Horses 208

The Bieszczady Woods 215

Cockatoo 232

Utopia 247

At Leatherarse Gully 254

The Pilliga Forest 268

East to Eden 283

South to the Walnut Forests 301

Shaydan and Arslanbob 324

Part 4 Heartwood

Suffolk Trees 349

A New-laid Hedge 355

Coppicing 364

Tools and Workshops 374

Ash 382.

ISBN:

9781416593621

1416593624

OCLC:

213303968

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