The Treeline

This original and readable book takes readers to a part of the world undergoing radical but little-understood change. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *An urgent and insightful tour of some of the world’s strangest, most bewitching and most endangered environments… This is an important book, and one I will be pressing into other people’s hands. – Cal Flyn, author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT[A] sweeping account of the Arctic forest that circles the world in an almost unbroken ring. * Financial Times *[A] lyrical and passionate book… The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world. – Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *[An] urgent investigation into the Arctic treeline… a meticulously researched and compellingly presented read. – Hannah Beckerman * Observer *Twill rightly provoke fear, but also a sense of wonder … A beautiful and evocative portrait of the natural world. It is essential reading for those hoping to better understand our changing planet. – Tom Lathan * Spectator *Rawlence is a fine ecologist and an excellent writer… The Treeline is timely, salutary and eminently readable. Excellent. – Colin Tudge * Resurgence & Ecology *Ben Rawlence… writes with accuracy, beauty and urgency. – Andrew Robinson * Nature *[A] moving, thoughtful, deeply reported elegy for our vanishing world and a map of the one to come. – Nathaniel Rich, author of LOSING EARTHA fascinating book drawing on a brilliant, original line of thinking… A perfect combination of lyrical writing and rigorous reporting. Utterly illuminating. – Sophy Roberts, author of THE LOST PIANOS OF SIBERIA

Ben Rawlence is the author of The Treeline, City of Thorns and Radio Congo. Rawlence has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker and many other publications. He lives in Wales and is the founder and director of Black Mountains College, an institution dedicated to preparing people for the changes to come.