Rowan
eBook - ePub

Rowan

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction Thresholds of Nature and Culture
  7. one Old Gods, New Myths
  8. two Magic and Medicine
  9. three Arts of Nationhood
  10. four Romantic Ecologies
  11. five Other Russias
  12. six Uprootings
  13. Conclusion Where One Tree Survives
  14. Timeline
  15. References
  16. Further Reading
  17. Associations and Websites
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Photo Acknowledgements
  20. Index