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ID
c69b
Title
"The English Forest."
Genre
Essay
Page Count
20
Word Count
3500
Publication Year
1937
Document Types
Full-text Online
Nature Writing

One of forty-five essays covering such things as castles, notable roads, and the varied regions of Britain.

Enhanced by eleven photographs, Bates's account begins with the definition of a forest and the question as to whether any have survived in England; he moves on through the beasts of the forest, hunting traditions, forests as captured in English literature, and the possibility of a land reforested in the future.

In Romantic Britain (Ed. Tom Stephenson, London: Odhams Press, 1937, pp. 227-236, attached).


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