The Medicine Tree
Repairing the Rotten Roots of England
$50.99
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2027
Summary
A stunning, deeply felt exploration of the struggle between ownership and belonging in England, by the best-selling author of The Book of Trespass.
Early one September, Nick Hayes brought his houseboat up the Thames into rural Oxfordshire, mooring opposite a strange tree that towered over the surrounding meadowland. The tree, he would discover, was a hybrid of the eastern cottonwood, brought back from colonial Canada. The land was the Hardwick estate, whose apparently timeless tranqui…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241731321 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241731321 |
| Author: | Nick Hayes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
This book elegantly weaves between a diaristic account of nine months moored on the Thames and a sprawling, granular and global history of the politics and spirituality of land. Both Nick’s accounts of the past and the contemporary are shot through with righteous anger but countered by his tender, visceral descriptions of the body within nature that makes the reader ache to swim naked and walk barefoot in the dew. Every chapter, based on the months from September to May, demonstrates Haye’s profound attachment to community, and are a clarion call for the vital rediscovery, or invention, of an Albion kinship of the land and the rivers. * Leah Gordon *
About The Author
Nick Hayes
Nick Hayes is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and land justice campaigner. In 2020, he co-founded Right to Roam, the influential campaign group advocating for public access to nature in England. He is the author of, among others, the Sunday Times best-seller The Book of Trespass and co-editor of Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You. An acclaimed artist, he has published four graphic novels and exhibited across the country, including at the Hayward Gallery. He lives on a canal boat with no fixed address.
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