Ben Rawlence

The Treeline (eBook, ePUB)

The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message.

'Evocative, wise and unflinching' Jay Griffiths, author of Wild

The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already.

Scientists are only just beginning to understand the astonishing significance of these northern forests for all life on Earth. At the treeline, Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the forest; we have always evolved with trees and The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might take us next.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

'A moving, thoughtful, deeply reported elegy for our vanishing world and a map of the one to come' Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth

'A lyrical and passionate book... The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world, as long as we are sensible enough to let them' Mail on Sunday

'Ben Rawlence circumnavigates the very top of the globe - returning with a warning, in this enthralling and wonderfully written book' Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473574977
• Artikelnr.: 60092200

Autorenporträt

Ben Rawlence is a former researcher for Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa. He is the author of City of Thorns and Radio Congo and has written for a wide range of publications, including The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Prospect. He is the founder and director of Black Mountains College and lives with his family in Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Taxus baccata -Yew (Wales)
1. THE ZOMBIE FOREST: Pinus sylvestris - Scots pine (Scotland)
2. CHASING REINDEER: Betula pubescens - Downy birch (Norway)
3. THE SLEEPING BEAR: Larix gmelinii - Dahurian larch (Russia)
4. THE FRONTIER: Picea glauca/Picea marinara - White spruce/Black spruce
(Alaska)
5. THE FOREST IN THE SEA: Populus balsamifera - Balsam poplar (Canada)
6. LAST TANGO WITH ICE: Sorbus groelandica - Greenland mountain ash
(Greenland)
Epilogue THINKING LIKE A FOREST
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Notes

Rezensionen

This original and readable book takes readers to a part of the world undergoing radical but little-understood change. Financial Times, _Books of the Year_