Heart of the Forest - Why Woods Matter

With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. John Miller builds upon the ecological arguments for saving forests to raise the compelling question of their cultural value, with beautiful illustrations from the British Library's unparalleled collections of books and manuscripts.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield and editor of the classic fiction collection Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain, published by the British Library in 2020.

Kathleen Jamie FRSL FRSE (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Bonniest Company (Picador, 2015), Waterlight: Selected Poems (2007), and The Tree House (2004), which won the Forward Prize for best poetry collection of the year, and a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award.

Zusammenfassung

With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. John Miller builds upon the ecological arguments for saving forests to raise the compelling question of their cultural value, with beautiful illustrations from the British Library’s unparalleled collections of books and manuscripts.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Miller
• Mitarbeit: Kathleen Jamie (Vorwort)
• Verlag: British Library
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780712354561
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5456-1
• Seiten: 304
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Ratgeber > Natur; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Plants / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Environmentalist thought and ideology