Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard (Paperback)
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'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, Observer
A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees
No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned scientist Suzanne Simard. Now she shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees: their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience.
Raised in the forests of British Columbia, where her family has lived for generations, Professor Simard did not set out to be a scientist. She was working in the forest service when she first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful entities that nurture their kin and sustain the forest.
Though her ground-breaking findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by the data. As her remarkable journey shows us, science is not a realm apart from ordinary life, but deeply connected with our humanity.
In Finding the Mother Tree, she reveals how the complex cycle of forest life - on which we rely for our existence - offers profound lessons about resilience and kinship, and must be preserved before it's too late.
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- 368 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780141990286
- Published: 3 Mar 2022
- Classifications:
- Popular science,
- Plant ecology,
- Applied ecology,
- Trees, wildflowers & plants
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 25 (mm)
| Brand: Penguin books ltd |
| Manufacturer: Penguin books ltd |
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