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Eating Dirt

By Charlotte Gill

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Eating Dirt

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• Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction • Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize • Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award "Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that I've read in a long time."-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree-planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests, which evolved over millennia into intricate, complex ecosystems. Among other topics, she also touches on the boom-and-bust history of logging and the versatility of wood, from which we have devised
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2012-08-09
Publication Date:
2012-07-24
Publisher:
Greystone Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1553657926
ISBN13:
9781553657927
Weight:
352 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
22 cm

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