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A few years before, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hillsides of Oxfordshire, Britain. The Real wood for the Trees and shrubs is the joyful, lyrical portrait of what he found there. With one section for each and every month, we undertake the times of year: tree felling in January, moth hunting in June, finding fantastic mushrooms in September. Fortey, combined with the occasional expert good friend, investigates the forest top to bottom level, discovering a fresh species and explaining the myriad contacts that connect us to mother nature and mother nature to itself. His textured, evocative prose and light humor light up the epic account of a small forest. But he doesn't stop at mere observation. The Real wood for the Trees and shrubs uses the forest as a springboard again through time, filled with rich and unexpected tales of the individuals, plants, and family pets that once called the land home. With Fortey's help, we come to visit a universe in small.
