04160cam a2200925 4500 521385923 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781588366030 1588366030 B000PDZFAM Amazon b6c694e9-45ee-4849-a41e-2ee5aebddcb0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 133844 133844 133844 106637 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Preston, Richard. The Wild Trees [Libby eBook] : A Story of Passion and Daring. Random House Publishing Group, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2427kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. gifts for nature lovers. narrative nonfiction. environmental gifts. nature lover gifts. Natural history. earth day books. Global Warming. National Parks. Climate change. Sustainability. redwood forest. tree climbing. science books. anthropology. Conservation. nature books. science book. Environment. exploration. California. Biography. Earth Day. Evolution. Adventure. Sociology. tree book. Outdoors. climbing. Wildlife. redwoods. Redwood. Science. Forests. Biology. Ecology. Sequoia. Nature. forest. trees . plants. Botany. earth. tree. HTML:Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air.<br /> <br /> Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In <i>The Wild Trees</i>, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored.<br /> <br /> The canopy<b>...</b>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Science. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:30:24. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B6C/694/E9/WildTreesAStoryofPassionandDaring9781588366030.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B6C694E9-45EE-4849-A41E-2EE5AEBDDCB0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B6C/694/E9/WildTreesAStoryofPassionandDaring9781588366030.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B6C694E9-45EE-4849-A41E-2EE5AEBDDCB0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B6C/694/E9/WildTreesAStoryofPassionandDaring9781588366030.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B6C694E9-45EE-4849-A41E-2EE5AEBDDCB0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)