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SUMMARY:Nature and Environment Book Club: The Arbornaut
DESCRIPTION:Please contact facilitator Hilary Caws-Elwitt for updated 
 meeting info.\n\nThe Nature and Environment Book Club is devoted to the 
 best of nature writing and environmental reporting with discussions on the 
 second Wednesday of each month. Readers and writers interested in books 
 ranging from such classics as Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to 
 topical reportage like Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction will want 
 to join the conversation.\n\n \n\nThis month's book is The Arbornaut by Meg 
 Lowman. \n\nGet a copy from the library by placing a hold.\n\nAbout the 
 book: \n\nWelcome to the eighth continent!\nAs 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 more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over 
 the world. With a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as it is practical 
 in its optimism\, The Arbornaut chronicles Lowman’s irresistible story. 
 From climbing solo hundreds of feet into the air in Australia’s 
 rainforests to measuring tree growth in the northeastern United States\, 
 from searching the redwoods of the Pacific coast for new life to studying 
 leaf eaters in Scotland’s Highlands\, from conducting a BioBlitz in 
 Malaysia to conservation planning in India and collaborating with priests 
 to save Ethiopia’s last forests\, Lowman launches us into the life and 
 work of a field scientist\, ecologist\, and conservationist. She offers 
 hope\, specific plans\, and recommendations for action\; despite 
 devastation across the world\, through trees\, we can still make an 
 immediate and lasting impact against climate change. A blend of memoir and 
 fieldwork account\, The Arbornaut gives us the chance to live among 
 scientists and travel the world—even in a hot-air balloon! It is the 
 engrossing\, uplifting story of a nerdy tree climber—the only girl at the 
 science fair—who becomes a giant inspiration\, a groundbreaking\, 
 ground-defying field biologist\, and a hero for trees everywhere.\n\n
LOCATION:Watson Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Book Discussions, Recurring Events
CONTACT;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
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