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    In a Hedge Druid's Grove
    In a Hedge Druid's Grove
    In a Hedge Druid's Grove
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    In a Hedge Druid's Grove

    By David Bridger

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    A year in the life of an old salt who sailed the world and came home to a different place, my memories and me exploring nature and history together in the wooded valley where I have settled as a solitary-practising hedge druid.

    I wrote this book for myself, obviously, and for readers who like me are:
    – seekers of spiritual communion with nature, who might follow a religion, or more than one religion, or no religion at all;
    – survivors of childhood sexual abuse;
    – people who live with chronic illness and pain; and/or
    – those interested in prehistory, archaeology, oral traditions, documented social history, genealogy, and ancestors of blood, of place, and of tradition.

    While writing this memoir in the form of a personal nature journal over twelve months, I remembered myself as a boy who loved the wild land I lived upon, who, through tragedy and trauma, lost that part of myself. Settling as an old man, somewhere with a remarkably similar landscape history to that of my birthplace, I’ve found the boy again. And a lifetime later, he is helping me to become whole.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateJul 1, 2023
    ISBN9781786455888
    In a Hedge Druid's Grove
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    David Bridger

    David Bridger settled with his family and their two monstrous hounds in England's West Country after twenty years of ocean-based fun, during which he worked at various times as a lifeguard, a sailor, an intelligence gatherer, and an investigator.

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