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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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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
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However too many climbers simply lost along the way and the insertion of the author as a participating climber is problematic
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Hey theres even a sex scene just one very discreetly recounted
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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
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So much information about their canopy that only the climbers can see and tell us about it in this book
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I could have used a little less details of the relationship details e
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