Volume 41, Number 10 · May 26, 1994

Sacred Woods

By Anne Barton
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
by Robert Pogue Harrison

University of Chicago Press, 304 pp., $12.95 (paper)

Hunters and Poachers: A Cultural and Social History of Unlawful Hunting in England 1485–1640
by Roger B. Manning

Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press, 255 pp., $45.00

The seventh square on the chessboard, the Red Queen warns Alice, 'is all forest.' When Alice arrives on its outskirts, in the looking-glass world, she finds its darkness disquieting.



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