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My Head For A Tree

Martin Goodman

Meet the Bishnois, the world's oldest sustainable community - with a foreword from Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

'Sensitive and engaging ... I hope everybody reads it' Brian Eno

SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

With a foreword by Peter Wohlleben

How much can one love a tree? Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a community renowned for the extreme lengths they go to in order to protect nature: Bishnoi men and women have died to defend trees from loggers and wildlife from poachers.

Writer and conservationist Martin Goodman, one of few trusted outsiders, relates the history of the Bishnoi, and asks what a world facing climate change and natural disaster can learn from a 600-year-old sustainable community leading an existence in delicate balance with nature and under threat from rapacious modernity.

My Head for a Tree offers a timely reflection on indigenous, community-based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world.

  • Classification : General Non-Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 23, 2025
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 272
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781800818712
  • Price : INR 699
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Martin Goodman

Martin Goodman is a writer and lifelong conservationist. With James Thornton he founded Client Earth, a non-profit environmental law organisation based in London. He is the author of nine books of fiction and non-fiction, and he is the Chair of Creative Wriitng at the University of Hull, where he directs the Phillip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing.

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