Used for shelter, tools, fuel, and food, they also help supply the atmosphere with oxygen and form astonishingly diverse ecosystems, as well as some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes. Trees have been a part of human history from the very beginning. The secret world of trees is revealed in this beautiful and absorbing guide to the giants of the plant world Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141012933 Number of pages: 464 Weight: 337 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm You may also be interested in.Discover trees as you’ve never seen them before in this illustrated blend of science, culture, and history His books include The Variety of Life and So Shall We Reap. Now a full-time writer, he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Always interested in plants and animals, he studied zoology at Cambridge and then began writing about science, first as features editor at the New Scientist and then as a documentary maker for the BBC. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends'Ĭolin Tudge started his first tree nursery in his garden aged 11, marking his life-long interest in trees. 'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. Tudge is as illuminating a guide as one could wish for'
'One of those books you want everyone to have already read' Lyrical and evocative, this book will make everyone fall in love with the trees around them. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees everywhere: from how they live so long to how they talk to each other and why they came to exist in the first place.
Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside our ancestors descended from them they gave us air to breathe. Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live and Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on them.
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