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The Tree Climbing Cure - Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art (Paperback)
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The Tree Climbing Cure - Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art (Paperback)
Series: Environmental Cultures
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Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we
first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them,
felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our
first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them.
Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and
art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing
Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when
and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and
say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing. Bringing
together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the
science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth,
folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines
the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and
questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about
women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works
of Margaret Atwood; Charlotte Bronte; Geoffrey Chaucer; Angela
Carter; Kiran Desai; and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as work by artists
such as Peter Doig; Paula Rego; and Goya, this book stands out as
an almost encyclopedic examination of cultural representations of
this quirky and ultimately restorative pastime.
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