Author: Deakin, Roger

Now published for the first time in the U.S., the last book by Britain's famed nature writer and environmentalist icon Roger Deakin is a glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element," as it exists in nature, our culture, and our souls. As the world's forests are whittled away, Deakin travels the world in search of what lies behind our profound and enduring connection with trees. His sparkling prose evokes woodlands anarchic with life, rendering each tree as an individual living being. 448 pp.