Readings in Wood: What the Forest Taught Me

by John Leland and John Leland

Award-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an investigation of trees and forests and also of wood as a material that people have found essential in the creation of society and culture. Leland views with wit and erudition the natural world and the curious place of human beings as saviors and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611174589
• ISBN13: 9781611174588
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"