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The Great Wood
The Ancient Forest of Caledon
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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 Highlandswide 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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What Reviewers Are Saying
'An acclaimed nature writer and wildlife expert... with a deep knowledge... His prose style is exquisite and his approach to his subject matter is pleasingly literary' * Herald * 'Crumley gives unique insight into the rich history of this land' * Scottish Field * 'An engaging read' * BBC Wildlife Magazine *