Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization - Brossura

Hayman, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1847250513 ISBN 13: 9781847250513

Casa editrice: Hambledon Continuum, 2007

Riassunto

Trees are special, being bigger than us both physically and metaphorically. Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization is an account of our relationship with them. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the great tree Yggdrasil was central to Norse mythology. Tacitus, followed by German nationalists and historians of liberty, located freedom in the German forests. Medieval forests were both protected hunting parks and the refuge of Robin Hood. Shakespeare contrasted the simplicity of life in the Forest of Arden with the artificial manners of the court, and indeed poets from Virgil to Hardy have drawn inspiration from trees. While eighteenth-century aristocrats controlled trees in plantations around their houses, Romantics delighted in vast untamed forests, and the American Henry Thoreau withdrew into the woods to reintegrate himself with nature. Throughout history, our views of trees have been affected by the changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and urbanisation. How we see trees today will dictate how trees are treated in the future.

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Recensione

"Richard Hayman's Trees is an entertaining and wise meander through the subject."   Reviewed in The London Review of Books, 2007.

L'autore

Richard Hayman is an archaeologist and architectural historian who writes on the history of the British landscape. His other books include Riddles in Stone: Myths, Archaeology and the Ancient Britons.

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• Editore: Hambledon Continuum
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847250513
• ISBN 13: 9781847250513
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280