{"product_id":"2940169439243","title":"The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Forest Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty.\" - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Haskell's award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Forest Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. An Amazonian ceibo tree reveals the rich ecological turmoil of the tropical forest, along with threats from expanding oil fields. Thousands of miles away, the roots of a balsam fir in Canada survive in poor soil only with the help of fungal partners. These links are nearly two billion years old: the fir's roots cling to rocks containing fossils of the first networked cells.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By unearthing charcoal left by Ice Age humans and petrified redwoods in the Rocky Mountains, Haskell shows how the Earth's climate has emerged from exchanges among trees, soil communities, and the atmosphere. Now humans have transformed these networks, powering our societies with wood, tending some forests, but destroying others. Haskell also attends to trees in places where humans seem to have subdued \"nature\" - a pear tree on a Manhattan sidewalk, an olive tree in Jerusalem, a Japanese bonsai- demonstrating that wildness permeates every location. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is \u003ci\u003emade from\u003c\/i\u003e these relationships. Haskell shows that this networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, and ethics. When we listen to trees, nature's great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead by Cassandra Campbell, with the preface and two interludes read by the Author\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097967837424,"sku":"2940169439243","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169439243_p0.jpg?v=1763682673","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169439243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}