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Lead book review

Try forest bathing – by day and night – to ward off depression

Anyone who spends time among trees senses how good that is for their physical and mental wellbeing, says Ursula Buchan

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst

Greystone, pp.264, 19.99

Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: Getting to Know Trees Through the Language of Scent David George Haskell

Aster, pp.192, 10

The Great British Tree Biography: 50 Legendary Trees and the Tales Behind Them Mark Hooper

Pavilion, pp.192, 16.99

Ever since a consensus emerged that trees and, by extension, their ecosystems, were both vastly interesting and badly threatened, great tottering logpiles of books about woods or individual tree species have seen the light of day. Of these books, one of the most influential has been The Hidden Life of Trees (2018), written by Peter Wohlleben, who for many years has looked after a forest in the Eifel mountains in Germany.

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