The Treeline
Book description
A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message.
'Evocative, wise and unflinching' Jay Griffiths, author of Wild
The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already.
Scientists are only just…
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I admire Ben Rawlence for his immersion in his subject. In previous books he reported from a refugee camp on the Kenya/Somalia border and from strife-ridden eastern Congo.
Here, he roams right across the high north, assessing the gamut of issues confronting a fast-changing north. Not all the change is dire: he quotes Kenneth Høegh, an agronomist, on the novelty of trees.
“Growing up in Greenland, trees were kind of exotic, strange,” as he describes for us Høegh’s project of foresting his island.
With chapters on the changing forest, animals wild and domestic, the changing climate, and issues and opportunities…
From Bill's list on to understand the high north.
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