Tree Wisdom: The definitive guidebook to the myth, folklore and healing power of Trees
Tree Wisdom: The definitive guidebook to the myth, folklore and healing power of Trees book cover

Tree Wisdom: The definitive guidebook to the myth, folklore and healing power of Trees

Paperback – Illustrated, August 13, 1997

Price
$9.89
Format
Paperback
Pages
368
Publisher
Thorsons
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0722534083
Dimensions
5.31 x 0.94 x 8.5 inches
Weight
1.43 pounds

Description

From the Back Cover Tree Wisdom explores the world of trees through the eyes of the ancients and our eyes of today. Trees existed long before humans and provide a unique holistic insight into our relationship with the land. In this time of increasing ecological awareness trees have become a symbol of our connection with Nature. Concentrating on the indigenous trees of Britain through the changing seasons of the year, Jacqueline Memory Paterson draws on years of extensive research to tell the story of each individual species of tree. This beautifully illustrated work covers every aspect of tree wisdom including comprehensive physical descriptions and botanical illustrations, the legends and myths surrounding each tree, its healing powers, both for ourselves and the planet, its artistic and practical uses, its specific inspirational qualities, its magical properties and how each features in the ancient tree alphabet. About the Author Jacqueline Memory Paterson has lived most of her life in the West Country, developing her unique understanding through an intense relationship with Nature. She is deeply involved with alternative educative theatre, and as Archdruidess of Glastonbury she has campaigned for the right of people to worship at Stonehenge. She currently holds the Bardic Chair of Avebury.

Features & Highlights

  • This beautiful illustrated book is the result of eight years exhaustive research into the myths, magic and healing power of trees.
  • It has comprehensive information on all the main species of tree and written in an easy to use and accessible style by an Arch-druidess.
  • This book contains all the practical information you need to identify each tree as it changes throughout the year and includes:
  • comprehensive physical and descriptions and botanical information
  • the legends and myths surrounding each tree
  • the healing powers and magical properties of the individual tree

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Leafy pleasures

If you like trees and you like folklore this book contains plenty to entertain and charm you. There is a chapter on seventeen trees indigenous to the British Isles, many of them common in Europe and elsewhere (you can see which ones by using the 'look inside' feature). Each chapter contains botanical information about the tree, sections on the legends they have inspired, the healing and magical properties traditionally associated with them, and the customary uses for their wood - from walking sticks to ships.

The book's focus is on Anglo-Saxon and Celtic legends (although it does include references to Greek myth and others); the illustrations, although nice, are not sufficient to identify the trees if you don't know them already; this is not an encyclopaedia - if, indeed, such a thing could exist for this subject matter.

It is full of beguiling stories and nuggets, however, for those who like the romance of the greenwood tree, and the whole charming effect is a bit like going for a stroll in the woods with a well-informed and chatty - some would say batty - friend.
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