The Wood

By John Lewis-Stempel,

Book cover of The Wood: The  Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

Book description

'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMES

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' (Country Life)

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons.…

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1 author picked The Wood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this book because it is like a gentle meander through the woods with the author. You get a real sense of what details draw him in, what his fascinations are, and his discoveries through the turning seasons.

It is often said that in order to really get to know a place, it is good to walk the same route in nature every day, and that was the sense I got with this book. The author knows the landscape of the woods so well, it is like he is visiting an old friend.

When I was stuck indoors a…

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