Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, big Timber, and Life With the Tree-Planting Tribe [Audiobook] download free by Charlotte Gill
- Listen audiobook: Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, big Timber, and Life With the Tree-Planting Tribe
- Author: Charlotte Gill
- Release date: 2012/3/8
- Publisher: GREYSTONE BOOKS,CANADA
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781553657927
- Rating: 7.51 of 10
- Votes: 153
- Review by: Mckenzie Cornish
- Review rating: 10 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/12
- Duration: 3H35M23S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, WMA, MP3, WavPack (compression RAR, AZW3, ZIP, XZ, IMG)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M52S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award 'Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that I've read in a long time.'-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company During Charlotte Gill's 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree-planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests, which evolved over millennia into intricate, complex ecosystems.Among other topics, she also touches on the boom-and-bust history of logging and the versatility of wood, from which we have devised
- Other categories, genre or collection: Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Memoirs
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.54 USD
- Dimensions: 144.78x215.9x20.32mm
- Weight: 340.19g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Canada
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