Wildwood
A Journey Through Trees
New York : Free Press, 2009.
Format: Book
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description: xii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
ISBN:
9781416593621
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Ecology Dea | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |