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baldingape's review against another edition
I won't rate this book.
I don't know if my mindset is just wrong for this book right now or if it's as truly tedious as it seems.
I will try again another day. I have faith that the author has written other good books, despite having not read them. And I will try his others probably before I ever get back to this one. Maybe. I don't know.
It's hard to really review a book fairly when you're too ill to notice if it's good or not.
I don't know if my mindset is just wrong for this book right now or if it's as truly tedious as it seems.
I will try again another day. I have faith that the author has written other good books, despite having not read them. And I will try his others probably before I ever get back to this one. Maybe. I don't know.
It's hard to really review a book fairly when you're too ill to notice if it's good or not.
readasaurus_rex's review against another edition
Just a little longer than necessary. The travel bits weren’t very interesting
emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition
DNF 21% - I gave up after five months of dipping in and out. I'd read in reviews that the first half could drag and the rest was better but even with a massive love of nature, I just couldn't bare with it anymore after months of trying.
rogue_runner's review against another edition
3.0
This took me FOREVER to get through. I think I just expected more of a textbook rather than a memoir, and although the stories were interesting and told with a very mellow tone, they just didn't really grip me overall.
averystrawberry's review against another edition
4.0
I wasn't interested in like, everything that was described here, but it was beautiful nonetheless
jennybeastie's review against another edition
5.0
This is the first Roger Deakin book I have read, but it won’t be the last. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees takes us around the world, from carefully maintained British woodlands to the Walnut forests of Kyrgyzstan. It’s not exactly a straightforward narrative; instead it is a meandering and beautiful contemplation, on trees, on living and on the natural world in general.
dancarey_404's review against another edition
4.0
I'll confess up front: the sections set in the Australian outback nearly lost me because the place is so foreign to my experience that I had little interest in Deakin's explorations there. But all the rest of the book made up for it, especially his stories of the walnut-growing regions of Central Asia.
As I reached the end of the book, I was feeling particularly aware of Deakin's untimely death and how sad it is that the world will not have lots more of his wonderful prose in years to come. I'll be starting [b:Notes From Walnut Tree Farm|4327583|Notes From Walnut Tree Farm|Roger Deakin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1330441657s/4327583.jpg|4375388] later this week.
As I reached the end of the book, I was feeling particularly aware of Deakin's untimely death and how sad it is that the world will not have lots more of his wonderful prose in years to come. I'll be starting [b:Notes From Walnut Tree Farm|4327583|Notes From Walnut Tree Farm|Roger Deakin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1330441657s/4327583.jpg|4375388] later this week.
rachmloh's review against another edition
5.0
When reading this last book Roger wrote before his death, one can really tell his huge love for trees and nature. Throughout the book, I found myself questioning his privilege (both as a White man and an accomplished writer) to have been able to experience what he did but throughout his chapters he would always acknowledge the realities of certain places and that it was a privilege. Still, this book served to remind me both of the beautiful intricacies of nature but also the immense privilege one must have in this world to be able to have access to that.