num_pages: 279
description: This is a journey of staying in once place told through trees.For ten years Inga Simpson lived inside a forest. Each chapter of this nature writing-memoir explores a particular species of tree layering description anecdote and natural history to tell the story of a scrap of forest in the Sunshine Coast hinterland - how the author came to be there and the ways it has shaped her life. In many ways it's the story of a treechange of escaping suburban Brisbane for a cottage on ten acres in search of a quiet life. Of establishing a writers retreat shortly before the Global Financial Crisis and losing just about everything. It is also the story of what the author found: the literature of nature. I see the world through trees. Every window and doorway frames trunks limbs and leaves. My light is their light filtered green. My air is their exhalation.
language: English
title: Understory: a life with trees
publisher: Hachette Australia