{"product_id":"thunder-tree-lessons-from-an-urban-wildland-9780870716027","title":"Thunder Tree  Lessons from an Urban Wildland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engrossing memoir and eloquent portrait of place, \u003cem\u003eThe Thunder Tree\u003c\/em\u003e shows how powerful the relationship between people and the natural world can be. This reprint of the classic book, updated with a new foreword by Richard Louv and a preface to this edition, makes one of Pyle's important early works once again available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As an adult, Henry David Thoreau may have had his Walden. Annie Dillard inhabited her Tinker Creek. But as a child, Bob Pyle became his High Line Canal—an accidental wilderness, he called it, surrounded by urban wasteland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A ditch, a ravine, a cluster of trees at the end of the cul de sac, an empty (filled!) lot; to an adult’s eyes, such nearby nature may seem insignificant. But to a child, these places can be doorways into whole galaxies. They’re as important to human experience as wilderness, and formative to nearly every conservationists’ consciousness.” — Richard Louv, from the new Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pyle has written an engrossing story of at least two levels: a charming memoir of his youth on the canal and a sobering account of uncontrolled development and loss of habitat.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Thunder Tree\u003c\/em\u003e was a huge, hollow old cottonwood in which the author and his brother once found shelter as children from a life-threatening hailstorm. The tree grew along the High Line Canal, built in the late 19th century as part of a grand plan to bring river water to the Western plains for irrigation. Only a portion of the canal was ever built, but that portion happened to run through the city of Aurora, Colorado, where the author lived as a child and young adult … this book is about the relationship between people and natural areas and how each affects the other.” — \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Never preachy, never cloying: a powerful and memorable example of place writing.” — \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038965465431,"sku":"9780870716027","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780870716027.jpg?v=1750942117","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thunder-tree-lessons-from-an-urban-wildland-9780870716027","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}