Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
Jan 26, 2010 Uncategorized
This is quite unlike most of the books I’ve reviewed here before. It has no clear narrative, it contains science but doesn’t focus on it and it’s hard to even describe what it’s about.
The book is a written tribute to and celebration of trees, and what we get from them – wood that is put to both utilitarian and artistic uses, walnut harvests in distant mountain ranges, firewood, hedges. Written as a journey that is sometimes continuous and sometimes resumes after an apparent gap of many years (or millions of miles), the naturalist author rambles all over the world and in doing so shares his knowledge about the natural world, art and social history. Reading this book is like a strange, somehow very moving, experience. Recommended.
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