East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Story of Roger's Life
It took me years to find it, but tucked away in a paragraph of East to Eden was a sentence that would grow through my own life. It comes after Roger has enjoyed a lunch of kumis, fermented mares milk, red wine, mushrooms, and grilled lamb with the family of Kazakh woods people up among the wild apple forests of the lower Tian Shan. Once the meal is ended, Roger steps outside. I wander up a steep path, he writes, and samples some sweet feral fruit slipping the apple pips into my trouser pocket for later planting in Suffolk. That sweet feral fruit belonged to the Ur apple, Malus Sversi, thought to be the wild ancestor of
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