Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man
By (Author) Nina Lyon
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
26th April 2017
6th April 2017
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural anthropology
398.45
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 128mm, Height 199mm, Spine 19mm
242g
Description
Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times An encounter with a carving of the Green Man at an ancient church leads Nina Lyon on a search to track him down in all his various guises. Against a backdrop of mountains, forests, rivers and stone circles, a cult of the Green Man emerges, as Nina explores his meaning and how he came into being. Meanwhile, in the woods, from an overgrown Welsh railway line to leafy London suburbia, strange things are happening...
Author Bio
Nina Lyon has worked in a Buddhist therapeutic community in Scotland, written contraband essays for cash in Berlin, and helps run the HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy festival near her home in Hay-on-Wye. Her essay 'Mushroom Season', inspired by youthful psychedelic misadventures and the mountains behind her home, was published by Random House in 2014 after being chosen as runner-up in the Financial Times/Bodley Head Essay Prize. She is currently completing a PhD about nonsense and metaphysics at Cardiff University.
