{"product_id":"9781529144222-our-oaken-bones","title":"Our Oaken Bones","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn enormously moving and inspiring story about war, trauma, nature and rebirth, written with infectious passion and unsparing honesty. I loved it. - \u003cb\u003eDOMINIC SANDBROOK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholarly, wise, funny, charming, terrifying and thrilling. I adored it all, every page. - \u003cb\u003eJOANNA LUMLEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth a comfort and an inspiration - \u003cb\u003eCHLOE DALTON, author of \u003ci\u003eRaising Hare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a lovely book - wise, brave, thoughtful, painfully intimate - but with a remarkable spiritual and environmental vision. - \u003cb\u003eRORY STEWART\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinarily courageous, urgent and powerful book. - \u003cb\u003eISABELLA TREE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply compelling. emotional, informative, pleasurable. I believe that this is an important work with planet-sized dreams and ambitions. Perhaps the greatest philosophy or teachable lesson that came to me off the page is that dominion comes with responsibility. - \u003cb\u003eRUSSELL CROWE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI love this book. - \u003cb\u003eRICK STEIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerfully enchanting, written with verve and imbued with hope. - \u003cb\u003eGUY SHRUBSOLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI lie on the rock to let my limbs dry after my immersion in the river. My bones warm. I have no towel but the moss is grateful for the additional moisture that I bring as the water runs off me and into its spongy web of roots and branches. I look up through the canopy and time freezes as the oak leaves drift gently backwards and forwards, dappling the light as it falls onto my body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am home.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and suffering from PTSD after military adventures in Afghanistan, Merlin and his wife Lizzie decide to leave the bustle of London and return to Merlin’s childhood home, a Cornish hill farm called Cabilla in the heart of Bodmin Moor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere, they are met by unexpected challenges: a farm slipping ever further into debt, the discovery that the overgrazed and damaged woods running throughout the valley are in fact one of the UK’s last remaining fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest, and the sudden and near catastrophic strickening by Covid of Merlin’s father, the explorer Robin. As they fall more in love with the rainforest that Merlin had adventured in as a child, so begins a fight to save not only themselves and their farm, but also one of the world’s most endangered habitats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Oaken Bones \u003c\/i\u003eis an honest and intimate true story about renewal, the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Path\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Rainforests of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41729575714913,"sku":"9781529144222","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33737498.jpg?v=1744388903","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529144222-our-oaken-bones","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}