The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
- ISBN-10
- 0143122940
- ISBN-13
- 9780143122944
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- David George Haskell
Description
Reveals what can be understood about the natural world through the author's year-long observation of a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest, explaining the scientific ties binding all life and how the ecosystem has cycled for millions of years. 25,000 first printing.
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