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A funny, deeply relatable book about one womans quest to track some of the worlds biggest trees.
Amanda Lewis was an overachieving, burned-out book editor most familiar with trees as dead blocks of paper. A dedicated indoorswoman, she could barely tell a birch from a beech. But that didnt stop her from pledging to visit all of the biggest trees in British Columbia, a Canadian province known for its rugged terrain and gigantic trees.
The Champion trees on Lewiss ambitious list ranged from mighty Western red cedars to towering arbutus. They lived on remote islands and at the center of dense forests. The only problem? Well, there were many. . .
Climate change and a pandemic aside, Lewiss lack of wilderness experience, the upsetting reality of old-growth logging, the ever-changing nature of trees, and the pressures of her one-year timeframe complicated her quest. Burned out againand realizing that her checklist approach to life might be the problemshe reframed her search for trees to something humbler and more meaningful: getting to know forests in an interconnected way.
Weaving in insights from writers and artists, Lewis uncovers what were really after when we pursue the big thingsrevealing that sometimes its the smaller joys, the mindsets we have, and the companions were with that make us feel more connected to the natural world.
Author: Amanda Lewis
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 05/30/2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781771646734
Language: English
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