Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization

by Richard Hayman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847250513
• ISBN13: 9781847250513
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"