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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth (Paperback)
Ben Rawlence (author)Published: 12/01/2023
Charting the inexorable impact of climate change through six types of tree that form the Arctic treeline, Rawlence's lyrical yet urgent volume is a masterful combination of nature writing, reportage and popular science.
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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781529112504
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 281 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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*
An urgent and insightful tour of some of the world's strangest, most bewitching and most endangered environments... This is an important book, and one I will be pressing into other people's hands. - Cal Flyn, author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT
[A] sweeping account of the Arctic forest that circles the world in an almost unbroken ring. - Financial Times
[A] lyrical and passionate book... The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world. - Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
[An] urgent investigation into the Arctic treeline... a meticulously researched and compellingly presented read. - Hannah Beckerman, Observer
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