Gossip from the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales - Couverture rigide

Maitland, Sara

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9781847084293: Gossip from the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales

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ISBN 10 : 184708429X ISBN 13 : 9781847084293

Editeur : Granta Books, 2012

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Gossip from the Forest A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections between the two, by the author of the bestselling A Book Of Silence. Full description

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Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient and primal 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 fairytales. 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 fairystory. Written with Sara's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.

Revue de presse :

In this complex, enchanting book, Maitlandcombines a wiry retelling of traditional European fairy tales with piercing comments on folklore, history and superstition and a rich evocation of the deep, natural, gnarled life of ancient woodlands --The Times

Maitland is a wonderfully enthusiastic Guide to her twinned realms, writing gleefully of crystal brain fungi and the 'strange smokey shimmer' of bluebells. Her relish is infectious, and I suspect as well as hope her 12 woods will see some new faces this year --Observer

The question at the heart of this beautiful, thoughtful book is: how did forests form fairy tales and how have fairy tales influenced the way we feel about forests? It mixes social history with natural history, literary criticism with fiction ... Maitland is incredibly good at taking us with her on journeys through the woods, as she examines her emotional responses ... As a follow-up to Maitland's sublime The Book of Silence, it's a worthy successor. As something to read on dark nights as the wind lashes the leaves from the trees, it's damn near perfect --Independent

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