Wildwood
Subtitle: a journey through trees
By: Roger Deakin.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781416593621
Subjects: Trees; Forests and forestry; Human-plant relationships
Description: 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.