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Wildwood : a journey through trees / Roger Deakin

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; London : Free Press, [2009]Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover edDescription: xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781416593621
  • 1416593624
Subject(s): 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
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General General ATU Wellpark Road General Shelves 508.3152 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available G111798

Part 1: Roots -- Part 2: Sapwood -- Part 3: Driftwood -- Part 4: Heartwood

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

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