'Wondrous. Non-fiction rarely sees a debut like The Genius of Trees. It is a true masterpiece' DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5 Stars The Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding global story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.
From the laurel cloud ...'Wondrous. Non-fiction rarely sees a debut like The Genius of Trees. It is a true masterpiece' DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5 Stars The Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding global story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.
From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - trees sculpt their environments. At once transporting and expert, The Genius of Trees gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative - and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.
'Exceptional' ROBIN LANE FOX, Financial Times Gardening Columnist 'Full of wonder and revelation ...