The Adventures of an Arbornaut: Slingshots, Sloths, and Stinging Trees

By Meg Lowman

Book Overview

High above our heads in the forest canopy is a whole other world. And scientists couldn't fully study it from the ground. How do you study the top of ninety-foot-tall trees? Armed with a homemade slingshot and harness and a climbing rope, pioneering tree scientist Meg Lowman set out to discover the "eighth continent."

In this memoir, Meg explores how her childhood fascination with nature turned into a lifelong passion for tree sciences that has taken her around the world―from her college studies of birch trees in Scotland, to building canopy walkways in Australia, to hosting a BioBlitz to find out how many species live in Malaysian forests.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H46CX6VR
• ISBN13: 9798765671078
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Zest Books (Tm)
• Length: 152 Pages
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary