The Treeline
- Author Ben Rawlence
- Narrator Jamie Parker
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 12 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Boreal, coniferous forest, Climate change, Popular science, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Travel writing, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest.
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What to expect
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The Treeline is a spellbinding blend of nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by an urgent environmental message.
The Arctic Treeline - the northern limit of the boreal forest that encircles the globe in an almost unbroken green ring - is the second largest biome on our planet. At this little-known frontline of climate change, the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already.
Six of the tree species that populate these forests (Larch, Spruce, Mountain Ash, Downy Birch, Balsam Poplar and Scots Pine) form the central protagonists of Ben Rawlence's story. In Scotland, northern Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland, he discovers what these trees and the people who live and work alongside them have to tell us about the past, present and future of our planet. Scientists are only just beginning to understand the astonishing significance of these forests for all life on Earth. At the Treeline, Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the forest; we have always evolved with trees. The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might take us next.
© Ben Rawlence 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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This original and readable book takes readers to a part of the world undergoing radical but little-understood change.
Financial Times, *Books of the Year* -
An urgent and insightful tour of some of the world’s strangest, most bewitching and most endangered environments… This is an important book, and one I will be pressing into other people’s hands.
Cal Flyn, author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT -
[A] sweeping account of the Arctic forest that circles the world in an almost unbroken ring.
Financial Times -
[A] lyrical and passionate book… The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world.
Mail on Sunday -
[An] urgent investigation into the Arctic treeline… a meticulously researched and compellingly presented read.
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