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First published 2018

Copyright © Dr Qing Li, 2018

Maps by Sarah Locher

Graphs by Michael Davis

Internal design by Couper Street Type Co.

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ISBN: 978-0-241-34696-9

To my daughter Lulu Li, my wife Zhiyu Wang, and my parents, Yuxing Li and Jinhua Yuan

Dr Qing Li is Associate Professor at the Nippon Medical School in Tokyo; he is one of the world’s leading experts on forest-bathing. Dr Li is vice-president and the secretary general of the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine and the president of the Society of Forest Medicine in Japan. He is also one of the directors of the Forest Therapy Society in Japan.

Contents

Some Forest Therapy Bases in Japan

Introduction: Our Relationship to Forests

1. From a Feeling to a Science

2. How to Practise Shinrin-Yoku

3. Bringing the Forest Indoors

4. Thinking about the Future

Appendices

40 Beautiful Forests across the World

The POMS Test

Studies Referred to in This Book

Further Reading

Picture Permissions

Acknowledgements

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