The Oak Papers by James Canton #literature WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER

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The Oak Papers by James Canton #literature WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER'Some five years ago, I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting, there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees, and oak trees especially, can have in our lives.' James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling