Join Cornish conservationist Merlin Hanbury-Tenison as he discusses his new book Our Oaken Bones with Dr Tiffany Murray. ’Our Oaken Bones is shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Joanna Lumley calls it, Scholarly, wise, funny, charming, terrifying and thrilling... I adored it all, every page.’
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison is a Cornish conservationist and veteran who founded The Thousand Year Trust, Britain’s rainforest charity. The charity’s mission is to catalyse the movement to triple Britain’s rainforest cover to one million acres in the next thirty years. His work has been featured in National Geographic, the Guardian and on the BBC.
Reeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and suffering from PTSD after military adventures in Afghanistan, Merlin and his wife Lizzie decide to leave the bustle of London and return to Merlin’s childhood home, a Cornish hill farm called Cabilla in the heart of Bodmin Moor. Our Oaken Bones is an honest and intimate true story about renewal, the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.