When I first read and subsequently reviewed Peter Wohlleben‘s The Hidden Life of Trees, I was deeply impressed by how “Mr. Wohlleben […] connected the “prose” (the science) and the “passion” (the receptiveness of human beings to stories) for the exaltation of the idea that we – each of us as individual human beings – can understand more about trees and forests than we previously knew, or indeed perhaps even thought we could know.”
Now, for all those who enjoyed that book – as well as for those who may not yet have discovered what has moved so many to be so passionate about it, Greystone Books has published The Hidden Life of Trees; the Illustrated Edition. Published in partnership with The David Suzuki Institute, this new coffee-table sized edition interweaves selections from Jane Billinghurst’s English translation of Mr. Wohlleben’s original German text with a collection of glorious, large-format photographs of trees and forests from around the world. The result is a superb fusion of images and ideas, all dedicated to proclaiming the message that trees and the forests of which they form a surprisingly interconnected part are far more remarkable than most of us ever previously dreamt.
