{"product_id":"9781841589732","title":"The Great Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Wood of Caledon – the historic native forest of Highland Scotland – has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlands-wide jungle infested by wolf, lynx, bear, beaver, wild white cattle, wild boar, and wilder painted men. Jim Crumley shines a light into the darker corners of the Great Wood, to re-evaluate some of the questionable elements of its reputation, and to assess the possibilities of its partial resurrection into something like a national forest. The book threads a path among relict strongholds of native woodland, beginning with a soliloquy by the Fortingall Yew, the one tree in Scotland that can say of the hey-day of the Great Wood 5,000 years ago: 'I was there.' The journey is enriched by vivid wildlife encounters, a passionate and poetic account that binds the slow dereliction of the past to an optimistic future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birlinn, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062203203824,"sku":"9781841589732","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841589732_p0.jpg?v=1763741848","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841589732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}