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    The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
    The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
    The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

    Written by David George Haskell

    Narrated by Michael Healy

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    About this audiobook


    In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.

    Each of this book's 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 thousands-sometimes millions-of 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 22, 2014
    ISBN9781452687513
    The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
    Author

    David George Haskell

    David Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of the multi-award-winning books The Forest Unseen (2012) and The Songs of Trees (2020), which won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing. Along with his scholarly research, Haskell has also published essays, op-eds and poetry.

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