Forestland: Our Woods and the People Who Make Them
An ageing father plants his last forest, in this history of forests in Britain and the men and women who built them – from the author of Wainwright Prize-shortlisted Rural.
This is the story of a forest and its forester.
Rebecca’s dad was a forester, and her granddad before him. Now he has dementia and is planting his last forest, laying down trees that will long outlive him and all of us reading this. As her dad forgets the details of his life, he still remembers the forest.
Thinking about the forests of her childhood and his, and how much we owe them, Rebecca set out to write our forest history. She shows how working-class men and women like her family have nurtured woods, and the wood they grow and fell in turn sustains us all, from our houses to our cities. Travelling from Cumbrian and Scottish woodlands to German Christmas tree forests and small Swedish family farms, Felled shows what the sustainable future of forestry could look like – and how we could become a forest nation once again.
An ageing father plants his last forest, in this history of forests in Britain and the men and women who built them – from the author of Wainwright Prize-shortlisted Rural.
This is the story of a forest and its forester.
Rebecca’s dad was a forester, and her granddad before him. Now he has dementia and is planting his last forest, laying down trees that will long outlive him and all of us reading this. As her dad forgets the details of his life, he still remembers the forest.
Thinking about the forests of her childhood and his, and how much we owe them, Rebecca set out to write our forest history. She shows how working-class men and women like her family have nurtured woods, and the wood they grow and fell in turn sustains us all, from our houses to our cities. Travelling from Cumbrian and Scottish woodlands to German Christmas tree forests and small Swedish family farms, Felled shows what the sustainable future of forestry could look like – and how we could become a forest nation once again.
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An ageing father plants his last forest, in this history of forests in Britain and the men and women who built them – from the author of Wainwright Prize-shortlisted Rural.
This is the story of a forest and its forester.
Rebecca’s dad was a forester, and her granddad before him. Now he has dementia and is planting his last forest, laying down trees that will long outlive him and all of us reading this. As her dad forgets the details of his life, he still remembers the forest.
Thinking about the forests of her childhood and his, and how much we owe them, Rebecca set out to write our forest history. She shows how working-class men and women like her family have nurtured woods, and the wood they grow and fell in turn sustains us all, from our houses to our cities. Travelling from Cumbrian and Scottish woodlands to German Christmas tree forests and small Swedish family farms, Felled shows what the sustainable future of forestry could look like – and how we could become a forest nation once again.
