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Books: Is A River Alive? (1 May 2025) | Underland | The Lost Words | The Old Ways etc … | Films: River, Mountain | Nature, climate, people | Prof @Cambridge_uni

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Word of the day: "library" - a treasure-house of books, a sanctuary for study. "Library" comes from the Latin "liber" meaning both "book" & "bark", from the early use of tree-bark as a writing material. As the word's roots tell us, libraries are story-forests, wildwoods of words.

Word of the day: "library" - a treasure-house of books, a sanctuary for study. "Library" comes from the Latin "liber" meaning both "book" & "bark", from the early use of tree-bark as a writing material. As the word's roots tell us, libraries are story-forests, wildwoods of words.