Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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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 />
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