The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Jan 2022 · Random House
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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
'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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Isabel Jones
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September 7, 2024
I was very attracted by the subject of this book as it seemed it would be full of wisdom. unfortunately within the first chapter I have found a number of factual errors. Various sources confirm that it was not 'Mesolithic' humans who cleared the Scottish Wildwood, but Neolithic farmers. Great spotted woodpeckers do not 'only nest in dead Scots Pine' in fact they prefer broad-leaved woodland. These errors plus evidence that the man does not think properly about his journeys - in the first chapter he makes a long walk in the remote Highlands without any water, and then drives a long way to visit the islands of Loch Maree without having thought about how to reach them - mean I cannot respect the man or take any of his ideas seriously. One wonders how someone gets to have books of this sort published without checking basic facts. Reading further seemed a waste of my time.
About the author
Ben Rawlence is the author of City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp and Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War. Rawlence has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, New Yorker and many other publications. He lives in Wales and is the founder and director of Black Mountains College, an institution dedicated to preparing people for the changes to come.
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