Paperback. Condition: New. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2026****LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026**'Sublime . A true masterpiece' DAILY TELEGRAPH, ? ? ? ? ?'Mind-blowing' GUARDIAN'Wondrous. Gives us trees as we've never seen them before' ISABELLA TREE, author of WildingThe extraordinary story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees have shaped our natural world.Over hundreds of millions of years, from the prehistoric forests to those standing tall over us today, trees have evolved to sculpt the environments. They split rock, change sex, spin carbon, and manipulate bacteria, animals and even humankind to achieve their ends and shape the natural world.In The Genius of Trees, Harriet Rix takes us on a mind-expanding, globe-spanning journey into the remarkable inner lives of trees. For the first time, we see trees not as victims, but as powerful agents of change in a grand ecological narrative - as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth who have transformed our planet and offer us hope for its future.**A TELEGRAPH, COUNTRY LIFE, NEW YORKER AND CRITIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**'Exceptional . Changes our entire view of trees' ROBIN LANE FOX, Financial Times Gardening Columnist'Full of wonder and revelation' SUE STUART-SMITH, author of The Well Gardened Mind'Captivating' COUNTRY LIFE'Profoundly inventive' INDEPENDENT'A magisterial tour de force - destined to become a classic' BEN RAWLENCE, author of The Treeline. Seller Inventory # LU-9781529921267

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The Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world

Harriet Rix

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Harriet Rix

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The mind-expanding global story of how trees have used the elements to shape our world - possessing agency beyond anything we might have imaginedThe Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding global story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.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.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.At once transporting and expert, The Genius of Trees 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781529921267

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