{"product_id":"genius-of-trees-how-trees-mastered-the-elements-shaped-the-world","title":"Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements \u0026 Shaped the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exceptional book'\u003c\/b\u003e ROBIN LANE FOX\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'This wondrous book gives us trees as we've never seen them before ... Beautifully explained, brilliantly written and perception-changing'\u003c\/b\u003e ISABELLA TREE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Genius of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003etells\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ea mind-expanding global story revealing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - trees sculpt their environments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At once transporting and expert, this profoundly original exploration of the science of trees is a startlingly new way of understanding these glories of our natural world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Genius of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative - and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Full of wonder and revelation ... Highly recommended'\u003c\/b\u003e SUE STUART-SMITH\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'If I was dazzled by nature and in awe of trees before, I now know how much we are indebted to them for the way they have shepherded life on earth for millions on years'\u003c\/b\u003e KIRSTY WARK\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements \u0026 Shaped the World","offer_id":44813837238469,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-84792-783-5.jpg?v=1749690963","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/genius-of-trees-how-trees-mastered-the-elements-shaped-the-world","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}