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Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest

by Herring, M. L.

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Book Overview Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavalsWinner, Nation...

Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavals

Winner, National Outdoor Book Award - Finalist, Oregon Book Award - CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you'd be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of land on the far west coast of North America have a lot to say about living in a twitchy world.

In this engaging book science writer M. L. Herring takes readers into the Pacific temperate rainforest at the tumultuous edge of a shifting continent in a precarious moment of time. Readers peek behind the magnificent scenery into a forest of ancient trees, exploding mountains, disappearing owls, tsunamis, megafires, and ten million people to learn what it means to be a forest in a world of upheavals.

Through Herring's words and pictures, readers drift into the canopy through masses of ferns and lichens, burrow into soil through hair-thin threads of fungi, and plunge headlong through a watershed flushed with rain and snowmelt. Readers experience the temperate rainforest through science and art as it faces a shifting climate and the shifting priorities of a constantly changing society. The book journeys beyond the grid of latitude and longitude and into places only one's imagination can fit, to discover what it means to be human in an ecological world.

Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 280 | Language: English | Publisher: YALE UNIV PR | ISBN: 0300275420
FormatHardcover
Pages280
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0300275420
EAN9780300275421
PublisherYALE UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.35 Pounds
Length8.8 Inches
Width5.9 Inches
Height1.3 Inches
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