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Green Road into the Trees, Green Road Towards One's Self

Autoři: Roebuck Olga

Rok: 2025

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Green Road into the Trees, Green Road Towards One's Self	Although familiar with distant and exotic locations, Hugh Thomson became alienated from his own native region. The paper explores the process of re-familiarizing oneself with the native landscape by letting the natural environment inspire the probes into its historical and social layers. Thomson´s book The Green Road into the Trees documents the restoration of his local identity through physical and psychological immersion in the British countryside. The paper focuses on the phenomenon of slow travel as a means of reconnecting with the environment and enabling one to identify as part of the local landscape. I argue that such reconnection, albeit bearing the anthropocentric motivation, helps to break the traditional human/nature dichotomy and helps to see the landscape as “the engagement of people in place, as experience in the world” (David and Wilson 2002, 5-6). On a more general level, the paper also explores how the focus on travelling enriches the genre of nature writing.	British nature writing; Hugh Thomson; local identity; landscape