The Wild Trees written by Richard Preston is a story of passion and daring that takes us away from the ancient art of rock climbing and into a new and incredible art called tree climbing in a celestial realm among the Titans or coral reefs of the sky; our nations great Californian Redwoods.
Most people climbed trees as children and many went on to become tree huggers as environmentalists in the last 30 years, some became professional outdoors enthusiasts, few became rock climbers but only a handful became professional tree climbers as adults, The Wild Trees is the story of those handful focused on the Californian Redwood Rainforest; one of Americas last and most ancient of native refuges.
Spectacular literature with images that depict what could very well be straight out of JRR Tolkiens Lothlorien, the elven forest of Queen Galadriel, The Wild Trees are incredible creatures, the largest individual organisms to ever exist on our planet, capable of surviving as long as anywhere from 2000 to 3000 years at the very least; so far, only the blade has been able to destroy these immortal giants.
The canopy of the Californian Redwood Rainforest is one of those places as of yet still untouched by our culture, a place where the animals know nothing of humans and their vast jungles of plexiglass concrete needles in heavens; The Wild Trees shows us a place where we are as strange to them as the quantum physics is to us.
Richard Preston calls the upper canopy of the Redwood forests a coral reef in the sky, and with reason, as they are a wondrous place with thriving forms of life and vegetation that all coexist in harmony with each other, completely oblivious to life on the ground.
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston tells the tale of how passionate biologists, climbers, environmentalists and a single journalist looking for something as far from writing as he could get as close to daring and surreal as possible.
The Wild Trees is a hardcover of 320 pages published by Random House on April 10thof 2007, measuring 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches and shipping at 1.2 pounds.
The Wild Trees is a story of people and nature, living as one, in harmony with the meaning and essence life itself.
