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A Year's Watch in Nature
Viking
March 2012
On Sale: March 12, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 067002337X
EAN: 9780670023370
Kindle: B005GSYZB6
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A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single
square meter of forest.
In this wholly original
book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch
of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto 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.
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