James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude, in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend. ‘The Oak Papers’ is a meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.

Author James Canton Published by Canongate ISBN 9781838851514 EAN 9781838851514 Bic Code Cover Paperback