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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154670503321

Autore

Fortey Richard

Titolo

The Wood for the Trees : One Man's Long View of Nature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016

©2016

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Disciplina

577.309425

Soggetti

Old growth forests--England--Chiltern Hills

Chiltern Hills (England) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map -- 1. April -- 2. May -- 3. June -- 4. July -- 5. August -- 6. September -- 7. October -- 8. November -- 9. December -- 10. January -- 11. February -- 12. March -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Illustrations.

Sommario/riassunto

From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England.