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Gossip from the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales - Hardcover

Maitland, Sara

 
9781847084293: Gossip from the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 184708429X ISBN 13: 9781847084293
Verlag: Granta Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient and primal landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of fairytales. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairystory. Written with Sara's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sara Maitland is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the Somerset Maugham Award-winning Daughters of Jerusalem, and several non-fiction books about religion. Born in 1950, she studied at Oxford University and currently tutors on the MA in creative writing for Lancaster University. She lives in Galloway.

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184708429X
ISBN 13 
9781847084293
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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