The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring with the World's Last True Explorers (平装)

基本信息出版社:Penguin (2008年8月7日)平装:320页正文语种:英语ISBN:0141031905条形码:9780141031903产品尺寸及重量:19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm ; 259 gASIN:0141031905

商品描述内容简介When Steve Sillett was 19 years old, he free-climbed - with no safety equipment and no training - one of the tallest trees on earth, in the redwood forests of Prairie Creek, California. 30 storeys above the ground he glimpsed an undiscovered ecosystem, and his passion for that astonishing world would transform the rest of his life. Over the next twenty years, Sillett and a close group of friends charted this system, discovering mosses and lichen never seen before, and travelling among branches so densely interwoven they form incredible sky-high walkways. There are only twenty people on earth who have climbed the world's tallest trees and who know their location. In writing "The Wild Trees", Richard Preston not only managed to gain access to this group, but began to climb these hidden giants himself, putting his life in danger in order to understand the powerful connection between the massive trees and the world's last great explorers.媒体推荐Invokes the spirit of Darwin, Audubon and Jacques Cousteau Washington Post Impressive ... these amateurs were taking their lives into their hands every time London Review of Books A fascinating adventure story The Sunday Times Combines the thrill of exploration with the quirkiness of those who chose it as their lives' work The New York Times