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Pros

Richard preston's book is an important read for anyone who loves the redwoods. The book follows the personal lives of the pioneers of canopy ecology; they essentially created the field. This book is the first of its kind to discuss life and the truly ...  Read More

This book is about the tree botanist climbers, a little of their life story and what it takes to climb these beautiful tallest and old trees in the northern coast of california. The author introduces an intrepid and perhaps obsessed group of people wh...  Read More



Cons

Steve sillett is a dangerous idiot who doesn't even know how to check the oil in his car. Sillett says of the redwood canopy, these trees are gnarly. There are places in the atlas grove where i can't justify the risk of letting anyone climb. Where are...  Read More

The book comes across as a disrespectful bait-and-switch. The subject matter just isn't as gripping or compelling as his books on viruses (and his co-authored fiction book with the late michael crichton) the character development is so poor and there ...  Read More

The writing style is painfully uneconomical. The text is an unending procession of compound sentences. The writing is absolutely atrocious.

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Quality


The real deal just wrote the story for you with the perspective of an insider

Packaging/appearance


I liked the true stories of people who discovered the wild redwood trees in oregon and california in the 1980s

Competitiveness


I recommend it to anyone who loves the natural world


I found it great for detail historical events that made possible to preserve this area of the world

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    great and giant.
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  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,120 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 19 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    At some point in this book i realized it was more a book about the people climbing the trees than the science of tree canopies and i wished for more science


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However too many climbers simply lost along the way and the insertion of the author as a participating climber is problematic


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Hey theres even a sex scene just one very discreetly recounted


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This is not a book that i would have chosen on my own


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But our book group designated this book as our next read and so i plodded in


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    They are older then the human species


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    So much information about their canopy that only the climbers can see and tell us about it in this book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I could have used a little less details of the relationship details e

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