Oak Papers (eBook)

James Canton (Autor)

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2020
182 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-152-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Some five years ago, I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting, there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees, and oak trees especially, can have in our lives.'James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude, in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend.The Oak Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.

Autor

Dr James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and has done since its inception in 2009. He is the author of Ancient Wonderings (2017) and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape (2013) which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS, Caught by the River and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on television and radio and lectures frequently. @jamescanton | @jrcanton1 | jamescanton.co.uk

Rezensionen

Praise for James Canton: Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures

Canton . . . is a stalker of literary ghosts, following traces across the Essex countryside that might lead him to the writers who might have lived and worked among these landscapes

James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy

This is a profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree. The tree and its surrounds come to life in shimmering detail, and Canton's writing has an exquisite, somewhat dreamlike quality

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2020
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Diary • Folkore • Healing • Honeywood Oak • Honywood • Honywood Oak • Natural History • Nature writing • oak tree • Power of Nature
• ISBN-10: 1-83885-152-6 / 1838851526
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83885-152-1 / 9781838851521