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For years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance.â€
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The Treeis the fullest and finest exploration I’ve ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art.â€
—Lewis Hyde, author ofThe Gift
“The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered.â€
—Washington Post
Finally back in print, here is the 30th anniversary edition ofThe Tree—the renowned English novelist John Fowles’s (The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman)moving meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity. An inspiring modern ecological classic,The Treeis both a powerful argument against taming the wild and a major author’s inspiring and beautifully written defense of “the joys of getting lost,†and of spontaneity in life and art.
