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The Path through the Trees: Beyond the World of Pooh, Part 2 Audiobook
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“In my first book, The Enchanted Places,” Christopher Milne writes in his preface, “I was writing about my childhood, saying what I needed to say about Pooh and Christopher Robin. The present book is in a way a sequel, starting where the other left off. But, rather more than that, it is a complement, it is about the non-Pooh part of my life. It is an escape from Christopher Robin.”
Everyone who grows up within a family experiences the need to outgrow parents and teachers, to make a way of life that is his own, and to create his own circle of friends and family—however large or small. As a young man, Christopher Milne found himself seeking his own path through life against a background of two central experiences. The first was being A. A. Milne’s son—which brought the peculiarly unique problem he describes so poignantly in his first book. The second was the war, in which he served in the Royal Engineers in North Africa and Italy. After the war, following some years of searching in London, Christopher Milne and his wife, Lesley, made their home and their career in Dartmouth, Devon, where they founded the Harbour Bookshop in 1951.
The Path through the Trees is a moving account of a young man’s search for his own identity. It offers a fascinating and affectionate account of a struggling (and later thriving) bookshop, and of the author’s own family life in a small English country town. The path its author chose has not led him to a mountain top but it has taken courage to follow and has clearly brought him happiness. His achievement in this book is to tell the story of this journey simply, vividly, and often humorously.
This audiobook is read by Peter Dennis, the actor who brought life to A. A. Milne’s Pooh stories and verses in various other works published by Blackstone Audio. A longtime friend of the Milne family, he made both this recording and The Enchanted Places as a gift for Clare Milne, Christopher Robin Milne’s only child.
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"Priceless, and together with The Enchanted Places, unique and will (obviously) stay unique for all time. This gentle, unassuming author is living evidence of the formative power of Pooh...and no perplex here, either."
— Thom (5 out of 5 stars)
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“If Christopher Robin Milne's childhood memoir, The Enchanted Places (1975), was read largely because of the associations with A. A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh, this second volume of autobiography will be read and loved entirely for the younger Milne himself.”
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“His autobiographical writing, particularly in The Path Through the Trees (1979), has a most attractive candour.”
— The Independent
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" I enjoyed it. I liked his analogies--how life is like a walk through the trees, coming on vistas and unexpected places, either delightful or hard. "
— Carol, 9/13/2013
About Christopher Milne
Christopher Milne was the world-famous son of A. A. Milne, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. He was also the basis for the character Christopher Robin in the Pooh stories.
About Peter Dennis
Peter Dennis (1933–2009) graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He played leading roles in London’s West End and throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. He also guest starred in numerous television series, including Alias, Friends, Seinfeld, and Star Trek: Voyager.