The Tree

The Tree

<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“For years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance."<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-<em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“<em>The Tree </em>is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-Lewis Hyde, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Gift<o:p></o:p></em></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><font face=Calibri> </font></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered."<br />-<em>Washington Post</em><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Finally back in print, here is the 30th anniversary edition of <em>The Tree</em>-the renowned English novelist John Fowles's (<em>The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman</em>)<em> </em>moving meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity. An inspiring modern ecological classic, <em>The Tree </em>is both a powerful argument against taming the wild and a major author's  inspiring and beautifully written defense of “the joys of getting lost," and of spontaneity in life and art. <o:p></o:p></span></p>