Bibliograph

Understory, a life with trees, Inga Simpson

Type

Label

Understory, a life with trees, Inga Simpson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Understory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Inga Simpson

Sub title

a life with trees

Summary

Each chapter of this absorbing memoir explores a particular species of tree, layering description, anecdote, and natural history to tell the story of a scrap of forest in the Sunshine Coast hinterland - how the author came to be there and the ways it has shaped her life. In many ways, it's the story of a tree change, of escaping suburban Brisbane for a cottage on ten acres in search of a quiet life. Of establishing a writers retreat shortly before the Global Financial Crisis, and losing just about everything. It is also the story of what the author found there: the literature of nature and her own path as a writer. Some of the nature writing that has been part of this journey is woven through the narrative arc. The Language of Trees is about connection to place as a white settler descendent, and trying to reconcile where the author grew up with where the author is now. It is her story of learning to be at home among trees, and the search for a language appropriate to describe that experience. That journey leads Inga to nature writing, to an environmental consciousness, to regenerating this place and, ultimately, to learning Gubbi Gubbi and Wiradjuri

Target audience

adult

Creator