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Planting a tree is an act of faith, an expression of hope.
The Five Acre Forest inspires that hope.
In transit from the globe-trotting life of an aid worker, Trish Nicholson came upon an eroded dune beside a lake in New Zealand’s far north and felt a strange attachment. The following year, she abandoned her Celtic roots and returned to plant a thousand trees.
Twenty years on, the author shares the physical and emotional trials and triumphs of transforming the dune into a five acre forest, and describes the lives of its native trees, birds and insects, enchanting us with local legends and her nature photography along the way.
Woven into Nicholson’s personal narrative is the deep-time story of an extraordinary landscape of dunes, lakes, swamps and beaches formed from an ancient shared geological ancestry.
Heel-on-spade nature writing that is also lyrical, passionate and full of wonder’
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This lovely book was just what I needed to read at a time when the news is so full of doom and gloom. The theme of The Five Acre Forest couldn't be more timely. The Isle of Man born author tells the true story of how she made a leap of faith twenty years ago and settled in New Zealand after visiting the country while working in Indonesia. The reason she felt drawn to make the move was the discovery of an eroded lake side dune a place she felt drawn to. Two decades and a thousand trees later she had created a five acre forest on the dune. The story of the forest, the landscape and the flora and fauna that live there is a magical one. It's a personal story, but it's also universal reaching back, as it does, into ancient times and addressing issues about the current health and future of our planet. It's about treasuring what we have and planning ahead for a future we won't see but hopefully the generations coming after us will. And it's inspiring too as it encourages us all to take action however small to nurture planet Earth.
