The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

by David George Haskell

Book Overview

In THE SONGS OF TREES, award-winning nature writer David Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. In doing this he shows that every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships, and that holding a networked view of life enriches our understanding of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052542752X
• ISBN13: 9780525427520
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.5"