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  • The Forest Unseen

  • A Year's Watch in Nature
  • Auteur(s): David George Haskell
  • Narrateur(s): Michael Healy
  • Durée: 9 h et 27 min
  • 4,6 out of 5 stars (8 évaluations)

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The Forest Unseen

Auteur(s): David George Haskell
Narrateur(s): Michael Healy
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In this wholly original audiobook, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this audiobook's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands - sometimes millions - of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.

©2012 David George Haskell (P)2014 Tantor

Ce que les critiques en disent

"An extraordinary, intimate view of life...Exceptional observations of the biological world." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"Very much a contemporary biologist in his familiarity with genetics and population ecology, he also has the voracious synthetic imagination of a 19th-century naturalist...a sensitive writer, conjuring with careful precision the worlds he observes and delighting the reader with insightful turns of phrase." ( The Wall Street Journal)
"[A] welcome entry in the world of nature writers. He thinks like a biologist, writes like a poet, and gives the natural world the kind of open-minded attention one expects from a Zen monk rather than a hypothesis-driven scientist." ( The New York Times)

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Beautiful book

Did not feel the narrator was the right choice. Some mispronounced words but more the disengaged British accent put me off. Someone with a scholarly Southern twang might have worked better

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