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Item Details
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THE GREAT WOOD
THE ANCIENT FOREST OF CALEDON |
| By: |
James Crumley |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£7.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857900900 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857900906 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2011 |
| Description: |
In this passionate and poetic appreciation of the Great Wood of Caledon, Jim Crumley thoughtfully explores the past myths, present remnants and future prospects of the historic native forest of Highland Scotland. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
16 Plates, color |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Birlinn eBooks |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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