The Forest Unseen: A Yearâs Watch in Nature
of David George Haskell
Description
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace natureâs path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.Each of this bookâs short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousandsâsometimes millionsâof years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home.Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288 pages
- Publisher Viking
- Publication Date March 15th 2012
- First Publication 03/01/12
- Language English
- ISBN 9780670023370
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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