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"In my first book, The Enchanted Places," Christopher Milne creates in his preface, "I used to be authoring my childhood, declaring what I needed to say about Pooh and Christopher Robin. Today's book is in a way a sequel, starting where the other kept off. But, more than that, it is a complement, it is about the non-Pooh part of my entire life. It is a getaway from Christopher Robin." Everyone who matures within a family group experiences the necessity to outgrow parents and teachers, to make a life-style that is his own, and also to create his own group of friends and family-however large or small. As a young man, Christopher Milne found himself seeking his own avenue through life against a background of two central experiences. The first had been A. A. Milne's son-which helped bring the peculiarly unique problem he identifies so poignantly in his first book. The next was the battle, in which he offered in the Royal Engineers in North Africa and Italy. After the war, pursuing some years of looking in London, Christopher Milne and his partner, Lesley, made their house and their profession in Dartmouth, Devon, where they founded the Harbour Bookshop in 1951. The Path Through the Trees is a moving profile of a young man's seek out his own identification. It offers a remarkable and affectionate profile of an struggling (and later thriving) bookshop, and of the author's own family life in a tiny British country town. The path its creator chose hasn't led him to a hill top but it includes taken courage to check out and has clearly brought him joy. His achievement in this book is to tell the story of the journey simply, vividly, and often humorously. This audiobook is read by Peter Dennis, the acting professional who helped bring life to A. A. Milne's Pooh reviews and verses in a variety of other works shared by Blackstone Music. A longtime good friend of the Milne family, he made both this recording and The Enchanted Places as a present for Clare Milne, Christopher Robin Milne's only child.
