Harriet Rix The Genius of Trees review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe bomen de elementen trotseerden en de wereld vormgaven. Op 7 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij The Bodley Head het boek The Genius of Trees, geschreven door Harriet Rixs, de Engelse historicus en wetenschapsfilosoof. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Harriet Rix The Genius of Trees review en recensie
- “Sublime… Through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both eminent, travelling scientist and a born writer… Non-fiction rarely sees a debut like The Genius of Trees. It is a true masterpiece.” (Horatio Clare, Daily Telegraph, 5 stars)
- “An exceptional book. Up to date scientifically, beautifully clear for all of us, it changes our entire view of trees while carrying us to other worlds and times. Enchantingly written, it has personal touches which unite science, travel and fine literature and lead us by the hand through woods we never understood before.” (Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times)
The Genius of Trees
How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world
- Auteur: Harriet Rix (Engeland)
- Soort boek: bomenboek, natuurboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: The Bodley Head
- Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 25,00 / £ 12,99 / £ 14,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek van Harriet Rix over het genie van bomen
The Genius of Trees tells a mind-expanding global story revealing the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.
Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.
Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border – trees sculpt their environments.
At once transporting and expert, this profoundly original exploration of the science of trees is a startlingly new way of understanding these glories of our natural world.
The Genius of Trees gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative – and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.
Harriet Rix is a tree science consultant who travels widely studying trees around the world. She was formerly based at the Tree Council, where she researched tree diseases and urban tree strategies. Rix holds a biochemistry degree from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. She was a London Library Emerging Writer, and her writing and photography have been published in the Financial Times, London Review of Books, and Times Literary Supplement, among others.