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Gossip From The Forest (2012)

by Sara Maitland(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

184708429X (ISBN13: 9781847084293)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Granta Books

review 1: This book was, at best, mediocre due to its redundancy of style and the author's pretentious prose (which becomes more and more pronounced as the book progresses). While I have to admit that the first few chapters held my interest, it became a struggle to finish this book given Maitland's tedious format: proselytize, revamp a fairy tale, rinse, repeat. The topic and the material hold a lot of interesting potential from a variety of viewpoints (linguistic, social, environmental, etc.), and it's a shame that that potential was never realized in this book.
review 2: The exploration of forestry in this book is beautiful and I found the musings on the possible links between forests and British fairy tales fascinating. It was very much a skim over the subject. I ju... morest about knew what coppicing was. I was fascinated to find out about pollarding and about the variety of animals that grazed the medieval woods. I can see that someone who already had more knowledge might find this slight but for this urban novice found it very powerful less

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