City of trees
Subtitle: essays on life, death and the need for a forest / $c Sophie Cunningham
Publisher: TEXT Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781922268846
Subjects: Travel; Trees; Death; Forests and forestry; Philosophy; Natural history literature; Travel writing; Australian essays
Description: How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us--humans, animals, trees--find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning of trees and our love of them. She chronicles the deaths of both her fathers, and the survival of P-22, a mountain lion in Griffith Park, Los Angeles; contemplates the loneliness of Ranee, the first elephant in Australia; celebrates the iconic eucalyptus and explores its international status as an invasive species. City of Trees is a powerful collection of nature, travel and memoir writing set in the context of global climate change. It meanders through, circles around and sometimes faces head on the most pressing issues of the day. It never loses sight of the trees.