the Great Wood of Caledon. And while its history is murky and steeped in lore, the wood itself may not have been all that forboding or extensive, experts say. A stand of Scots pines is reflected ...

So why do pine trees have such a hold over us? One reason is that, lodged in the Scottish people's mind, is the idea of the "Great Wood of Caledon", the idea that Scotland was once clothed from ...

In 2011’s The Great Wood he tackles the legend of the so-called Great Wood of Caledon, the Caledonian forest said to have once stretched from coast to coast and to have covered much of the ...