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Title: GOSSIP FROM THE FOREST
THE TANGLED ROOTS OF OUR FORESTS AND FAIRYTALES
By: Sara Maitland
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1847084303
ISBN 13: 9781847084309
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Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
Pub. date: 6 June, 2013
Pages: 368
Description: A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections between the two, by the author of the bestselling A Book Of Silence
Synopsis: Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of the fairytales made famous by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairytale.Written with Maitland's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.
Illustrations: Illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Granta Books
Prizes: Short-listed for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards:
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