- Publisher: Canongate
- Year: 2020
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 250pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 198x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781838851514
- Product code: 546908
The Oak Papers
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Over the course of two years, James Canton made multiple visits to the centuries-old Honeywood Oak on the Marks Hall Estate in North Essex, connecting both with the tree and the ecosystem surrounding it. Documenting his experience in diary-form, he muses on humans’ long-standing reliance on the species, the myths and legends associated with it, and nature's healing power.
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'Some five years ago, I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting, there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees, and oak trees especially, can have in our lives.'
James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude, in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend.
The Oak Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.
James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude, in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend.
The Oak Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.
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Over the course of two years, James Canton made multiple visits to the centuries-old Honeywood Oak on the Marks Hall Estate in North Essex, connecting both with the tree and the ecosystem surrounding it. Documenting his experience in diary-form, he muses on humans’ long-standing reliance on the species, the myths and legends associated with it, and nature's healing power.
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