| Author | : Richard St. Barbe Baker |
| Publisher | : Forres : Findhorn |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780905249636 |
The author, a conservationist, forester, founder of Men of the Trees was responsible for planting over 26 trillion trees during his lifetime. This book, written when he was 80, tells his life story.
| Author | : Paul Hanley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780889775664 |
The inspiring tale of an Edwardian eccentric and the world's first "tree hugger," Man of the Trees introduces the storied life of Richard St. Barbe Baker to the world.
| Author | : Richard Powers |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393635538 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
| Author | : Diana Beresford-Kroeger |
| Publisher | : Timber Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2021-10-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1643261320 |
Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have sparked a quiet revolution. In this captivating account, she shows us how forests can not only heal us, but can also save the planet.
| Author | : Jim Robbins |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2013-05-16 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1847659039 |
This is an extraordinary book about trees. It's an account by a veteran science journalist that ranges to the limits of scientific understanding: how trees produce aerosols for protection and 'warnings'; the curative effects of 'forest bathing' in Japan; or the impact of trees in fertilizing ocean plankton. There is even science to show that trees are connected to the stars. Trees and forests are far more than just plants: they have myriad functions that help maintain the atmosphere and biosphere. As climate change increases, they will become even more critical to buffer the effects of warmer temperatures, clean our water and air and provide food. If they remain standing. The global forest is also in crisis, and when the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying - across North America, Europe, the Amazon - it's time to pay attention. At the heart of this remarkable exploration of the power of trees is the amazing story of one man, a shade tree farmer named David Milarch, and his quest to clone the oldest and largest trees - from the California redwoods to the oaks of Ireland - to protect the ancient genetics and use them to reforest the planet.
| Author | : Aimée M. Bissonette |
| Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2021-09-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0807572829 |
Trees can live a very long time, but what happens when they die? This unusual book describes, in lyrical prose accompanied by colorful and graphic illustrations, that trees have a whole long second life, continuing to contribute to their habitat, the environment, and the cycle of life.
| Author | : Bhajju Shyam |
| Publisher | : Tara Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Artists' books |
| ISBN | : 8186211926 |
A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, in a handsome handcrafted edition.
| Author | : Alejandro Zambra |
| Publisher | : Open Letter Books |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1934824240 |
Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.
| Author | : David George Haskell |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0143111302 |
WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.
