The Wild Trees

The Wild Trees

Infobox Book
name = The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
author = Richard Preston
country = United States
language = English
cover_artist =
publisher = Anchor
release_date = 2007
media_type = Print (Paperback and Hardback)
pages = 294

"The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring" is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods and the recreational climbers who climbed them. It is a narrative-style collection of stories from climbers who pioneered redwood climbing, including botanist Steve Sillett, lichenologist Marie Antoine, and Michael Taylor, and who inadvertently discovered a thriving ecosystem hidden among the tree tops, 60–90 meters (200–300 ft) above, of redwood lattices, berry bushes and bonsai trees (epiphytes), lichens, voles, and salamanders.

The book was #83 on Amazon.com's Best Books of 2007: Editors' Top Picks. It was illustrated by Andrew Joslin.

The Wild Trees introduces several characters and provides backgrounds for them, as far back as their childhoods. Throughout the book, information about trees, forests and logging is woven into the story.

Several of the largest and tallest known redwoods are introduced, including descriptions. Details are provided about how these trees are climbed, explored and studied.

References

*cite web| publisher=Blogcritics Magazine | last=Dirga | first=Nik | date=2008-06-12 | url=http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/12/042733.php | title=Book Review: "The Wild Trees" by Richard Preston | accessdate=2008-08-02
*cite newspaper| work=The New York Times | last=Maslin | first=Janet | date=2007-04-19 | title=Where the redwoods grow, the oddballs also flourish | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/books/19masl.html | accessdate=2008-08-02
* [http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Trees-Story-Passion-Daring/dp/1400064899 Amazon.com]

External links

*" [http://www.wesjones.com/climbing1.htm Climbing the redwoods] ", an earlier essay by Preston that appeared in "The New Yorker"


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