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THE TREE ALMANAC 2024
BY DR GABRIEL HEMERY, ROBINSON, £14.99 (HB)
The almanac is a form that has largely fallen from grace, to be replaced by the disparate (ahem, unreliable) information sources that litter the digital sphere. This is a shame, as the form has a rich heritage, and speaks to knowledge and culture learned and shared over millennia. Author Gabriel Hemery uses the almanac form to reimagine and reaffirm long-lost links to our nature and culture.
invites us to reconsider a venerable way of experiencing the natural world, placing us within the annual rhythms of seasons:enthusiastic advocate. An almanac for 2024 would be useless unless it responded to the present, and Hemery is sure to include in its pages the unease of the Anthropocene, the impacts of the climate crisis and the devastation brought by invasive non-native species and tree disease.
