Ebook: The great wood: the ancient forest of Caledon
Author: Crumley Jim
- Tags: Forests and forestry--Scotland--Highlands--History, Naturwald, Forests and forestry, History, Forests and forestry -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History, Scotland -- Highlands, Highlands
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Birlinn
- City: Edinburgh;Highlands;Scotland
- Language: English
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The Great Wood of Caledon - the historic native forest of Highland Scotland - has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlands-wide jungle infested by wolf, lynx, bear, beaver, wild white cattle, wild boar, and wilder painted men. Jim Crumley shines a light into the darker corners of the Great Wood, to re-evaluate some of the questionable elements of its reputation, and to assess the possibilities of its partial resurrection into something like a national forest. The book threads a path among relict strongholds of native woodland, beginning with a soliloquy by the Fortingall Yew, the one tree in Scotland that can say of the hey-day of the Great Wood 5,000 years ago: 'I was there.' The journey is enriched by vivid wildlife encounters, a passionate and poetic account that binds the slow dereliction of the past to an optimistic future.
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