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Gossip from the Forest - The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales (Paperback)
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Gossip from the Forest - The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales (Paperback)
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List price R336
Loot Price R306
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Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms,
and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a
similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but
also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book,
Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the
mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests
were both the background and the source of the fairytales made
famous by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Yet both forests
and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our
cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons,
from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled
stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son
Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she
takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane;
she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a
miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a
unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairytale. Written with
Maitland's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from
the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history
and imaginative fiction.
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