Research Catalog

Title

Burn : a story of fire, woods and healing / Ben Short.

Author

Short, Ben

Publication

London : Sceptre, 2022.

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Details

Description

ix, 246 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"I came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods because there was a fire in my head. On the outside, Ben Short looks like he has it all - a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy area of London, an expensive motorbike. But inside, he's a wreck. Years of suffering with an anxiety disorder and depression have broken him, and his 'creative' career has become sterile and suffocating. A drastic change is needed. Like his neighbour's rescue hawk, he acts on instinct and escapes the city. For a time, he takes on odd jobs - gardening, hedge-laying and labouring in the Cambridgeshire Fens and in the Devon countryside, trying to find somewhere he belongs. That is until he feels the call of the furnace: a glowing charcoal kiln in the West Dorset woods, where he can re-forge his thoughts, put the years of suffering behind him and start afresh by immersing himself in the ancient ways of woods and fire. He lives in huts and old wagons in the woods, hauling water from wells and foraging for his supper. But this is no idyll - the road is hard, the work back-breaking, the woods dark and brimming with powerful energies"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Short, Ben > Mental health
• Outdoor life > Psychological aspects
• Fire > Psychological aspects
• Wilderness area users
• Mental health

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.

Call Number

JFD 22-2224

ISBN

• 1529370345
• 9781529370348

OCLC

1277281588

Author

Short, Ben, author.

Title

Burn : a story of fire, woods and healing / Ben Short.

Publisher

London : Sceptre, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781529370355

Research Call Number

JFD 22-2224