\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sensitive and engaging ... I hope everybody reads it' Brian Eno\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR \u003c/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a foreword by Peter Wohlleben\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow much can one love a tree? Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a community renowned for the extreme lengths they go to in order to protect nature: Bishnoi men and women have died to defend trees from loggers and wildlife from poachers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriter and conservationist Martin Goodman, one of few trusted outsiders, relates the history of the Bishnoi, and asks what a world facing climate change and natural disaster can learn from a 600-year-old sustainable community leading an existence in delicate balance with nature and under threat from rapacious modernity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Head \u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003efor a Tree \u003c/i\u003eoffers a timely reflection on indigenous, community-based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world.\u003c/p\u003e
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