Dear ECOLOG-L:
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees
Nalini Nadkarni is the author of Rainforests, with J. Johnson,
Monteverde: The Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest,
with N.T. Wheelwright, and Forest Canopies, with M.L. Lowman. She
teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at The Evergreen State
College and is President of the International Canopy Network. Her
work has been featured in magazines such as Natural History, Glamour,
and National Geographic and she has appeared in numerous television
documentaries. In 2002, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to
better extend her work to the public.
http://go.ucpress.edu/EarthandSky
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on
four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen,
musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering
diverse perspectives. In _Between Earth and Sky, _a rich tapestry of
personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our
captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through
her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of
trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them,
the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the
powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees'
intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely
understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their
existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and
deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She
explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have
assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense
of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry
to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.
Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/EarthandSky
