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The forest is mentioned in Upton Sinclair's seminal novel The Jungle (1906). It is the birthplace of protagonist Jurgis Rudkus. The forest is a key focus in the 2021 nonfiction book Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel. The book describes the experience of a Jewish family that fled into the forest ...
Primeval Forest National Park is a small national park located on southwestern New Providence Island in the Bahamas. A patch of old-growth blackland coppice and karst with an area of 7.5 acres, it is considered a time capsule of the old evergreen tropical hardwood forests of the Bahamas. It was established in 2002.
THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
The Perućica Forest Reserve is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long, 1–3 kilometres (0.62–1.86 mi) wide, and has an area of 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres). It is a UNESCO recognized site. The forest has many trees that are 300 years old, and the primeval forest's vintage is stated to be 20,000 years.
This forest is placed on the World Heritage Tentative list as a proposal for the expansion of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe site: Montenegro [21] Virgin Forest Reserve in NP Biogradska Gora; Serbia [12] Fruška gora, Kopaonik, Tara
The Nara Palace Site was designated as Special Historic Site and the Kasugayama Primeval Forest as Special Natural Monument. Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji and the Kasugayama Primeval Forest overlap with Nara Park , a park designated as one of the "Places of Scenic Beauty" by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
Prašuma Janj is a protected nature area in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1] It covers the basin of the Janj river from Babići to the mouth in the Pliva river near Šipovo. [2]
The forest covers about 1,600 square kilometres (400,000 acres), of which 1,140 square kilometres (280,000 acres) are in Poland. The Polish part of the forest is located in Podlaskie Voivodeship, in the northeastern part of the country. The northern part of the Augustów Primeval Forest has been turned into one of the youngest Polish national ...