Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing...
PublishedCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. Gregory Barton's study explores...
Forest bathing or shinrin-yoku is a way of walking in the woods that was developed in Japan in the 1980s. It brings together ancient ways and wisdom with...
'Landscape and Memory' is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape...
Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest...
Roger Deakin's Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writing
Wildwood is about the element 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, acr