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Synopsis

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, builds hazel benders, and hunts bush-plums with aboriginal women. 

At once autobiography, history, a traveller’s tale and a work of natural history, Wildwood is a lyrical and fiercely intimate evocation of the spirit of trees: in nature, in our souls, in our culture, and in our lives.

Reviews

Critic Review:

'Deakin's book is an excellent read - lyrical and literate and full of social and historical insights of all kinds.' 
Financial Times

'A wonderful book, it sparkles in all direction.'
Literary Review

'A miscellany of rural essays, in the literary tradition of W.H Hudson, Richard Jefferies and William Cobbett, told with verve and energy.'
The Spectator

'By turns passionate, whimsical, lyrical, despairing and inspiring... a fitting tribute to a great writer.'
London Review of Books

'An enchanting book, the prose is so alert and alive. Roger Deakin can be counted one of the greatest of all Nature writers.'
The Mail on Sunday

'A masterpiece which deserves to be read and reread.'
The Guardian

'A breathtaking book, vividly written...Reading Wildwood is an elegiac experience.'
The Sunday Times

'A work of immense charm and verbal brilliance.'
The Herald

'It’s a wayward, random, reckless pilgrimage, just about held together by his romantic and adorable joy.'
The Observer
'Celebrates the changing relationship between man and woods.'
The Times
 
'I have never read anything that better evokes the experience of wandering in woodland.'
The Independent

'Bowls along like Holland’s programmes.'
The Independent
 
'A great English eccentric of the best kind.'
Irish Examiner

'His own sylvan sojourns, beautifully rendered, are what stick.'
Irish Times

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