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Shop nowThe Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
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Michael Healy
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Length
9 hours 27 minutes
Language
English
In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.
Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands—sometimes millions—of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home.
Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.
David George Haskell is a professor of biology at the University of the South and was named the Carnegie-CASE Professor of the Year in Tennessee in 2009. In addition to his scholarly work, he has published essays and poetry. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Michael Healy trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and has appeared off-Broadway and off-off Broadway in many productions. He worked on Saturday Night Live for three years and has appeared in several national television commercials. In New York he has worked on stage with Harold Prince, Tatum O'Neal, and William Hickey, and in Rhode Island he has worked extensively with the Gamm Theatre, the Rhode Island Center for the Performing Arts, the Courthouse Center for the Arts, and the Firehouse Theater. He won an award for acting in 2007.