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Book SynopsisAn 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
