Penguin Random House South Africa
Categories: Non-Fiction, International Non-Fiction, Nature & Natural History, Adult
ISBN: 9780141010014
Published: June 2008
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 416
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00
Wildwood
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A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives.
'Breathtaking, vividly written . . . reading Wildwood is an elegiac experience' Sunday Times
'He writes nature as a blackbird sings, or a bird of prey rides thermals - effortlessly.' Reader Review
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From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, he embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and trees.
Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in...