The Great Wood: The Ancient Forest of Caledon - Brossura

Crumley, Jim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184158973X ISBN 13: 9781841589732

Casa editrice: Birlinn Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

The Great Wood of Caledon - the historic native forest of Highland Scotland - has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlandswide jungle infested by wolf, lynx, bear, beaver, wild white cattle, wild boar, and wilder painted men.Jim Crumley shines a light into the darker corners of the Great Wood, to re-evaluate some of the questionable elements of its reputation, and to assess the possibilities of its partial resurrection into something like a national forest. The book threads a path among relict strongholds of native woodland, beginning with a soliloquy by the Fortingall Yew, the one tree in Scotland that can say of the hey-day of the Great Wood 5,000 years ago: 'I was there.' The journey is enriched by vivid wildlife encounters, a passionate and poetic account that binds the slow dereliction of the past to an optimistic future.

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'Crumley gives unique insight into the rich history of this land. *****' --Scottish Field

'Crumley's greatest talent lies in his ability to convey genuine sympathy for the wildlife he observes, and a somehow calming sense that, however much mankind might like to think itself above all that, we re really all just part and parcel of the same continuum' --The Stirling Observer

'[His] passion for the natural world reverberates to the core of his being, and he writes about it with the style of a poet' --The Herald

'On familiar passionate and poetic form ****' --Press & Journal Review

'[His] passion for the natural world reverberates to the core of his being, and he writes about it with the style of a poet' --The Herald

'On familiar passionate and poetic form ****' --Press & Journal Review

'[His] passion for the natural world reverberates to the core of his being, and he writes about it with the style of a poet' --The Herald

'On familiar passionate and poetic form ****' --Press & Journal Review

L'autore:

Jim Crumley was born and grew up in Dundee, and now lives in Stirlingshire. He has written over twenty books and has made documentaries for BBC Radio 4, Radio Scotland and Wildlife on One.

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• Editore: Birlinn Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 184158973X
• ISBN 13: 9781841589732
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208