Return to My Trees

Notes from the Welsh Woodlands

Author(s) Matthew Yeomans

Language: English

Genre(s): Calon, History, Tourism, Welsh Interest

  • September 2022 · 256 pages ·216x135mm

  • · Hardback - 9781915279149
  • · eBook - epub - 9781915279163
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781915279170

About The Book

When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature – and how do we find it again?

Matthew Yeomans seeks to answer these questions as he walks more than 300 miles through the ancient and modern forests of Wales, losing himself in their stories (and on the odd unexpected diversion, too).

Return to My Trees weaves together history and folklore with tales of industrial progress and decay. On his journey, he visits landmarks that once were home to ancient Druids, early Celtic saints, Norman Lords and the great mining communities that reshaped Wales. He becomes immersed in the woodlands that inspired the country’s great legends. At one point he even stumbles upon a herd of television-watching cows.

As Yeomans walks, he reflects on these woods’ uncertain future, his own relationship with nature and the global problems we need to solve if humans are to truly make peace with the natural world. from tree-planting in ways that are actually beneficial to the environment and local communities to embedding the value of nature into our financial and economic systems.

The result is a fascinating and funny adventure that offers insight into the past, present and future of Wales’s woodlands and shows what the rest of the world can learn from them.

About the Author(s)

Author(s): Matthew Yeomans

Matthew Yeomans is an author and writer. His last book, Return to My Trees, was published by Calon in 2022 and he is the author of four other books. As a journalist he has written about the environment, sustainability, travel, business and technology for publications in both the UK and the US. They include: The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Atlantic Monthly. He has also been a senior editor at both The Industry Standard and The Village Voice. Matthew has also taught journalism and writing at New York University and Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture.

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