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An eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers. Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife

Nicknamed the Real-Life Lorax by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowmanaka CanopyMegtakes us on an adventure into the eighth continent of the world''s treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action

Welcome to the eighth continent!

As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn't monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees.

Forty years later, Lowman remains one of the world's foremost arbornauts, known as the real-life Lorax. She planned one of the first treetop walkways and helps create mo

The Arbornaut

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    A Paperback / softback by Meg Lowman, Sylvia A Earle

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 17 May 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250849182
      978-1250849182
      ISBN-10 1250849187
      Also in:
      Autobiography: science, technology and medicine The Earth: natural history: general interest Ecological science, the Biosphere

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers. Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife

      Nicknamed the Real-Life Lorax by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowmanaka CanopyMegtakes us on an adventure into the eighth continent of the world''s treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action

      Welcome to the eighth continent!

      As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn't monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees.

      Forty years later, Lowman remains one of the world's foremost arbornauts, known as the real-life Lorax. She planned one of the first treetop walkways and helps create mo

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