Wildwood
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  • Published: 4 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141010014
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Wildwood

A Journey Through Trees

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A powerful and yet intimate celebration of trees and all they mean to us

Wildwood is a remarkable celebration of the transforming magic of trees, exploring the 'fifth element' of wood as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives.

From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin 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 with trees.

Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in shacks and cabins, travels in search of the wild apple groves of Kazakhstan, goes coppicing in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback.
  • Published: 4 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141010014
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin, who died in 2006, was a writer, filmmaker and environmentalist of international renown. He was a founder member of Friends of the Earth, and co-founded Common Ground. He lived for thirty-eight years in a moated farmhouse in Suffolk. Waterlog, which was first published in 1999, became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and is now an established classic of the nature writing canon.

A filmmaker and writer with a particular interest in nature and the environment, Roger Deakin was the author of Wildwood and the highly acclaimed Waterlog. He lived in Suffolk, and died there in August 2006, aged 63.

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Praise for Wildwood

With this book Roger Deakin can be counted one of the greatest of all nature writers. His beautiful book should serve to make us appreciate more keenly all that we have here on earth

Mail on Sunday

Full of delight and joy and wisdom

Sunday Telegraph

With this book Roger Deakin can be counted one of the greatest of all nature writers. His beautiful book should serve to make us appreciate more keenly all that we have here on earth

Mail on Sunday

A breathtaking book

Sunday Times

A masterpiece which deserves to be read and reread

Guardian

One of my favourite kind of books. Few books make you change your habits; this one changed mine

Will Self, New Statesman
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