Readings in Wood - Leland, John
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Award-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an investigation of trees and forests and also of wood as a material that people have found essential in the creation of society and culture. Leland views with wit and erudition the natural world and the curious place of human beings as saviours and destroyers of this world.

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Award-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an investigation of trees and forests and also of wood as a material that people have found essential in the creation of society and culture. Leland views with wit and erudition the natural world and the curious place of human beings as saviours and destroyers of this world.
Autorenporträt
John Leland is the author of several books published by the University of South Carolina Press including Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America, Learning the Valley: Excursions into the Shanandoah Valley, and Porcher's Creek: Lives between the Tides. Leland teaches English at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.