The Global Forest: Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us

by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Book Overview

A pioneering scientist writes of the fascinating ecological and pharmaceutical properties of trees, and how mother trees nourish younger trees and help them defend themselves

The inspiration for the documentary Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees, and herself part of the inspiration for Dr. Patricia Westerford, the tree researcher at the heart of The Overstory, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Powers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143120166
• ISBN13: 9780143120162
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher