East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane

From the Yangtze Valley, to Neolithic Mesopotamia, to the orchards
of Oxford, Roger Deakin sought to understand the origins of the
domesticated apple. His essay East of Eden—an excerpted chapter
from his book Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees—recounts his
journey into the wild fruit forests that grow on the mountainsides
of Kazakhstan. After Roger’s death in 2006, Robert MacFarlane
planted a sapling grown from an apple seed that Roger carried home.
As ‘Roger’s tree’ now fruits in his yard, Robert collects the pips
to distribute to others, envisioning a “worldwide wildwood of
memory-trees.” This essay is narrated by Robert Macfarlane. Learn
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