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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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