Gossip From the Forest: The Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales [Audiobook] download free by Sara Maitland
- Listen audiobook: Gossip From the Forest: The Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales
- Author: Sara Maitland
- Release date: 2013/3/17
- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781847084309
- Rating: 8.53 of 10
- Votes: 546
- Review by: Belle Ammons
- Review rating: 8.91 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/7
- Duration: 4H31M50S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Musepack, ATRAC, WAV, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC (compression TAR.Z, JAR, ZIP, EML, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M37S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of the fairytales made famous by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairytale. Written with Maitland's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Guidebooks, Folklore, Myths & Legends
- Download servers: MEGA, 4Shared, Hotfile, FileServe, Uploaded, Torrent Project, FreakShare, Your Bittorrent. Compressed in TAR.Z, JAR, ZIP, EML, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.81 USD
- Dimensions: 130x198x24mm
- Weight: 255g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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