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ISbN 978-0-14-312294-4 $16.00 ($17.00 CAN)<br />

Science/Nature 5 5 /16 x 8 288 pp.<br />

Rights: W00 Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02337-0<br />

On sale: 3/26/<strong>2013</strong><br />

SuggeSTeD ORDeR<br />

“ Mr. Haskell is a sensitive writer, conjuring<br />

with careful precision the worlds he observes<br />

and delighting the reader with insightful<br />

turns of phrase.”<br />

—The Wall Street Journal<br />

“ A new genre of nature<br />

writing, located between<br />

science and poetry.”<br />

—Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University<br />

A biologist reveals the secret world<br />

hidden in a single square meter of forest<br />

The Forest Unseen<br />

A Year’s Watch in Nature<br />

David George Haskell<br />

Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is<br />

a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Biologist David George<br />

Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee<br />

forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost<br />

daily for one year to trace nature’s path through the seasons, he<br />

brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Beginning with<br />

simple observations—a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter,<br />

the first blossom of spring wildflowers—Haskell spins a brilliant<br />

web of biology, ecology, and poetry, explaining the science binding<br />

together ecosystems that have cycled for thousands—sometimes<br />

millions—of years.<br />

n Has a very wide appeal, from serious science buffs to fans of<br />

Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver<br />

n For readers of Peter Matthiessen, Bernd Heinrich, and Elizabeth Kolbert<br />

dAvid geoRge hAskell is a professor of biology<br />

at the University of the South and was named the Carnegie-CASE<br />

Professor of the Year in Tennessee in 2009. In addition to his<br />

scholarly work, he has published essays and poetry. He lives in<br />

Sewanee, Tennessee.<br />

Online Publicity<br />

ClassiC <strong>Penguin</strong><br />

APRIL<br />

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