Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree
Book description
'My favourite book of the year' - Kate Humble, Radio Times
'This is a book for literary connoisseurs, fact-lovers and environmentalists. In short, it is a book about trees and people, for everyone.' - BBC Countryfile
'Eclectic, brilliant and beautifully written, David Haskell reboots our aromatic memory reminding us of…
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1 author picked Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It seems as though Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees kicked off a slew of new books on seeing nature from a fresh perspective. Learning that trees communicate, as do other plants, warning and protecting each other is a sort of modern, scientific parlance for what in Shakespeare’s day might have been the fairyland antics in the anima of plants. But Thirteen Ways takes it a step further, opening an unexpected sensorial ‘conversation’ with our arboreal kin. Naso may be “smelling out the odouriferous flowers” in Love’s Labours Lost but Haskell has us inhaling deeply these silent sentinels that…
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