The Great Tree Story

A thrilling journey of discovery! Levison Wood is our passionate guide as we head through time and across the world in the company of trees. – Tristan Gooley Levison Wood has done the impossible. To tell the story of trees in a single book is a Herculean task, but one that he has resoundingly achieved. – Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, author of Our Oaken Bones Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller. – Sir Ranulph Fiennes Britain’s best-loved adventurer. * The Times * A thrilling, moving, and convincing journey through the life of trees. – Will Storr, author of The Status Game This powerful book brims with curiosity, original thought, and cutting-edge research, but amidst the wonder, you can also hear the haunting ‘cry’ of the natural world. – Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Levison Wood is a bestselling author, photographer and explorer. He has written seven other books: Walking the Nile and Walking the Americas (both Sunday Times bestsellers), Walking the Himalayas (Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards), Arabia, Eastern Horizons, The Last Giants and the children’s book, Incredible Journeys. His six television series to date have been broadcast and distributed in over a hundred countries worldwide. Wood served for several years as an Officer in the British Parachute Regiment, including an operational deployment to Afghanistan where he fought against Taliban insurgents in Helmand and Kandahar. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, a visiting Fellow at CASS business school, and he has been a Leica ambassador since 2014.

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