Wildwood :
Deakin, Roger.
Wildwood : a journey through trees / Roger Deakin. - London : Hamish Hamilton, 2008. - xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780141010014
2010485148
Trees.
Forests and forestry.
Human-plant relationships.
QK475 / .D42 2008
Wildwood : a journey through trees / Roger Deakin. - London : Hamish Hamilton, 2008. - xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780141010014
2010485148
Trees.
Forests and forestry.
Human-plant relationships.
QK475 / .D42 2008