Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the
last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of
the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on
wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in our
culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies 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.
As the world's forests are whittled away, Deakin's sparkling
prose evokes woodlands anarchic with life, rendering each tree as
an individual, living being. At once a traveler's tale and a
splendid work of natural history, "Wildwood" reveals, amid the
world's marvelous diversity, that which is universal in human
experience.
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