The Journeys of Trees

Story about Forests, People, and the Future

The Journeys of Trees
Zach St George
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Paperback
h211 x 140mm - 256pg
5 Apr 2022 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9781324020233
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Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. Today, however, an array of obstacles-humans felling trees by the billions, invasive pests transported through global trade-threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all, the climate is changing faster than ever before, and forests are struggling to keep up.A deft blend of science reporting and travel writing, The Journeys of Trees examines the evolving movements of forests by focusing on five types of tree: giant sequoia, ash, black spruce, Florida torreya, and Monterey pine. Journalist Zach St. George reads fossils that show the paths of ancient forests, introduces lively characters on the conservation front lines-such as an ecologist studying droughts and an evolutionary evangelist with plans to save a dying species-and reveals how we can all help our trees, and our planet, survive and thrive.
"A thoughtful and timely meditation on how our changing world disrupts the bonds between trees, the lands they root in, and the people whose lives they nourish-and what we might do about it." -- Sonia Shah, author of Pandemic and The Next Great Migration
"These stories vividly evoke the deep bonds between people and trees. In the paradoxical, surprising journeys of trees is writ the sylvan future of forests and cities alike." -- David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen
"A fascinating, eloquent, and often surprisingly funny journey into the troubled relationship between people and trees in a future that is now. This is the smartest book yet on how to think and live in the age of climate change." -- J. B. MacKinnon, author of The Once and Future World
"How does a tree travel? From that seemingly koan-like question, Zach St. George creates an illuminating, enchanting, and occasionally alarming portrait of an earth in flux. I will treasure this book long into our uncertain future." -- Robert Moor, author of On Trails
"This captivating book makes deep acquaintance with five species of tree, revealing that life is constantly on the move and nature needs space to survive. Forests, it turns out, migrate across vast dimensions of space and time, engaged in an invisible ballet Zach St. George helps us to see." -- Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of Citizen Scientist
"An elegant-and urgent-paean to trees." -- Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who Planted Trees
"I was once asked by a scientist, 'Are you ready to put a sprinkler system on the giant sequoias?' Zach St. George takes us on a journey to understand why this question is so important and the answer so complex." -- Jonathan Jarvis, former director of the National Park Service and coauthor of The Future of Conservation in America
Zach St. George is a science reporter who has written for the Atlantic, Scientific American, and Outside, among other publications. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781324020233
Published: 5 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 211mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 202g
Pages: 256

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