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/100
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79/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Ben Rawlence
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
February 15, 2022
For the last 50 years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ice-loving Dahurian larch of Siberia, the antiseptic Spruce that purifies our atmosphere, the Downy birch conquering Scandinavia, the healing Balsam poplar that Native Americans use as a cure-all and the noble Scots Pine that lives longer when surrounded by its family.
What The Reviewers Say
... important.
A grand investigation.
Rawlence evokes the natural world in lyrical, delicate prose.
Eloquent.
