Finding the Mother Tree
€19.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141990286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Simard |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.292 |
| Publishing Date | 03/03/2022 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €18.16 |
| Tax | €1.09 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €19.25 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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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.