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The Tree : A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge; OverDrive, Inc is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future. There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world—throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe—bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us: how they grow old, how they eat and reproduce, how they talk to one another (and they do), and why they came to exist in the first place. He considers the pitfalls of being tall; the things that trees produce, from nuts and rubber to wood; and even the complicated debt that we as humans owe them. Tudge takes us to the Amazon in flood, when the water is deep enough to submerge the forest entirely and fish feed on fruit while river d

Who reads The Tree : A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter?

Author

Colin Tudge; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307351739

Category

science

Subjects

Nature, Science, Stem

Rating

4.3 / 5 (123 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14