Authors Tour
Update from the Author's Tour
April 15, 2005
Morning broke early on Thursday morning for the authors who braved sleeping outside at the Forest Rescue Station. Ken Finn (UK) and Lydia Root (Dutch) slept directly under the stars and the northern lights. Javier and his wife Theresa (Spain) slept in a bivouac - but more or less outside! They all said the experience was great and were barely disturbed by the noisy activities of the 'Anti Terror Info Centre' campers. In fact, they were quite disappointed to have slept through the air raid siren and the pyrotechnical display of burning wooden crucifixes at 4am.
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April 14, 2005
Lydia Rood, is a Dutch novelist, and writer of children's books. She tells us of her experiences in the forests of Finland...
When I woke up this morning, there was snow on the floor beside me and the book I had been reading last night looked wrinkled. Not surprising, as I had slept in the tepee, or kota, of the hotel with its open rooftop. I took up the book (it was still too early to bother anyone with my presence) and read on where I had left off. The story, by Mikael Niemi, was still great. Yet the paper it was printed on looked like toilet paper.
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UK Author Ken Finn, author of My Journey With A Remarkable Tree was part of the author tour. He gives us his thoughts on his visit to the Forest Rescue Station.
I am here with a group of Authors from Europe visiting the Greenpeace Forest Rescue Station. Over the last couple of days we've seen a beautiful and ancient forest at risk.
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April 13, 2005
It's been a hectic few days at the Forest Rescue Station - seven writers from around Europe came to visit us! But it was more than a social call, they were here to bear witness to the destruction of ancient forests here in Finland. On board the 'Authors Tour' are Javier Moro from Spain, Niccolo Ammaniti (Italy), Ken Finn (U.K.), Karel Verleyen (Belgium), Aurélie Filipetti (France), Robin Valtiala (Finland) and Lydia Rood (The Netherlands). They're visiting as part of the Greenpeace Book Campaign - which aims to convince the book publishing industry that it needs to stop using paper which comes from the destruction of ancient forest, such as those in Finland, Russia and Canada.
