Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for September 2017
This book is a lens to help you take a closer look at what you may have taken for granted. Slow down,breathe deep and look around. What can you hear What can you see What do you feel
Are trees social beings How do trees live Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings
In The Hidden Life of Trees,Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children,communicate with them,support them as they grow,share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling,and even warn each other of impending dangers.
Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests,explaining the amazing processes of life,death and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. A walk in the woods will never be the same again.
'We read in fairy tales of trees with human faces,trees that can talk,and sometimes walk. This enchanted forest is the kind of place,I feel sure,that Peter Wohlleben inhabits. His deep understanding of the lives of trees,reached through decades of personal observation and study,reveals a world so astonishing that if you read his book,I believe that forests will become magical places for you too.'- Tim Flannery writing in the foreword to The Hidden Life of Trees
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008218430Number of pages: 288Weight: 270 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Marvellous.'- John Banville,The Irish Times
'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement.'- Charles Foster,author ofBeing a Beast
'The Hidden Life of Trees is a wonderful,provocative book that draws together half a century of much-neglected and misunderstood plant science and frames it within field observations by an acute and empathetic forester.'- TheNew Statesman
'The matter-of-fact Mr. Wohlleben has delighted readers and talk-show audiences alike with the news long known to biologists that trees in the forest are social beings.'- The New York Times
'Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees breaks entirely new ground...(Wohlleben) has listened to trees and decoded their language. Now he speaks for them.'- Thomas Pakenham,The New York Review of Books
'A declaration of love and an engrossing primer on trees,brimming with facts and an unashamed awe for nature.'- The Washington Post
'A magical book about fixtures that we walk by every day and take for granted...The Hidden Life of Trees may be the most important environmental book of the year.'- The San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Wohlleben
A German forester,Peter Wohlleben spent over two decades working for Germany's forestry commission developing radical new theories about ecology and arboreal communication. He is the author of the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees which was chosen as Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month as well as The Inner Life of Animals and The Weather Detective.
Visit the Peter Wohlleben author page
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