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Wildwood

Roger Deakin

  • 403 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2007
  • 6 editions
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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: nature and travel writing.

  • Nature
  • Human-plant relationships
  • Voyages and travels
  • Nature, effect of human beings on
  • Travel
  • Trees
  • Effect of human beings on
  • Forests and forestry

2 About Roger Deakin

1943–2006

Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 – 19 August 2006) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. He was a co-founder and trustee of Common Ground, the arts, culture and environment organisation. Waterlog, the only book he published in his lifetime, topped the UK best seller charts, and founded the wild swimming movement. Patrick Barkham published a biography of Deakin in 2023 titled simply The Swimmer.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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