The Tree In Changing Light

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Knopf
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 177 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: A beautiful and bestelling meditation on trees Because a tree bloomed seasonally we felt its body like our own. A tree stood still and yet suffered change. A tree growing old grew down into itself. Trees could not heal wounds, only cover them up. Trees were magnificent survivors. Trees got used. Trees behaved erratically under stress. Trees strove to fulfill an ideal shape but were twisted out of it by pressures of existence.In The Tree In Changing Light, Roger McDonald meditates on our unique landscape and its rich tapestry of native and introduced trees, which give language to our existence. His most intimate and personal book to date, it also celebrates country men like his grandfather Chester Bucknall, a forester and pine-planter, of whom he writes, I believe him to have been a dreamer about trees; Wilf Crane, Roger McDonalds mentor with trees who flew planes across country on solo planting raids and whose death while flying inspired this book; and Tom Wyatt, a bush gardener whose dedicated hands made trees bloom in Queensland towns. Here too are historical vignettes of a landscape husbanded for many centuries by Australian Aboriginals, yet swiftly and irrevocably changed by European settlement; encounters with poets and painters inspired by trees; tales of ordinary people for whom trees are talismanic; and interwoven throughout are autobiographical sketches, slices of family history and episodes from Roger McDonalds own life as a writer and sometime planter of trees. An unusual and beautiful book, The Tree In Changing Light,is the moving and personal statement of a writer about his relationship with the land, with language, with memory and with Australias cultural and literary heritage.

ISBN: 9780091836634