The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth, Rawlence, Ben. Published by St. Martin’s Press, 2022. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 320pp. In fine, unread condition.
Winner of the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence’s The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ice-loving Dahurian larch of Siberia, the antiseptic Spruce that purifies our atmosphere, the Downy birch conquering Scandinavia, the healing Balsam poplar that Native Americans use as a cure-all and the noble Scots Pine that lives longer when surrounded by its family.
