Meg Lowman Tree Day review, recensie en informatie met een verhaal over 24 uur van 24 bomenlevens. Op 10 september 2025 verschijnt bij University of Chicago Press het boek van Meg Lowman het boek van het leven van 24 bomen gedurende een etmaal. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Meg Lowman Tree Day review en recensie
- “I highly recommend Tree Day: A Story o f24 Hours and 24 Arboreal Lives. It is not just a book filled with scientific facts. It is also a book written in Meg Lowman’s engaging story telling style, which reveals her love (which I share) of trees as living beings. It will help all who read it understand the important role trees play in our lives and the life of our planet. Congratulations, CanopyMeg.” (Jane Goodall)
- “CanopyMeg Lowman is rightly famous for introducing thousands of people to the forest from high in the branches. Now she reveals trees through the hours of the day. With illustrations by Thibaud Hérem, this fine book should belong to anyone who loves nature—as well as those who don’t yet.” (Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle)
Tree Day
- Auteur: Meg Lowman (Verenigde Staten)
- Illustraties: Thibaud Hérem
- Soort boek: bomenboek, natuurboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: University of Chicago Press
- Verschijnt: 10 september 2025
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 18,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek van Meg Lowman over 24 uur in het leven van een boom
An hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four trees as they root, flower, and host diverse forest life.
In this short book, treetop explorer Meg Lowman guides us through a global forest. Each chapter of Tree Day introduces a single tree during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four species from around the world.
In the dark of Yemen’s night, it is too early to see the red sap from which the dragon’s blood tree gets its name. But if we watch closely, we will see nocturnal geckos carry the trees’ pollen in their snouts. Later, in the Pacific Northwest, we climb the world’s tallest species, the coastal redwood. The morning fog is a reminder that redwoods absorb water through their roots and canopies, helping them survive such heights. The sun is already low in the sky on an autumn afternoon. Given the darkness of this New England forest, the sugar maple’s leaves have stopped producing chlorophyll that converts light into energy—and green gives way to vivid crimson foliage. After many hours of boiling, the maple sap makes delicious maple syrup. As the sun sets in Mexico, we observe the origin of another treat, chocolate. The cocoa tree’s flowers sprout along its trunk and branches, allowing easy access for tiny insects like midges that pollinate the tree and start the process of making delicious food for humans, monkeys, bats, and squirrels. By the end of our tree day, we will understand that trees are the silent caretakers of our planet, providing us with medicines, foods, machinery for making fresh water and oxygen, and more.
For each hour, celebrated artist Thibaud Hérem has depicted these trees with gorgeous pen and ink illustrations. Working together to narrate and illustrate these unique moments in time, Lowman and Hérem have created an engaging read that is a perfect way to spend an hour or two—and a true gift for anyone who has ever looked up at a tree in wonder.
Meg Lowman is also known as CanopyMeg. She is a treetop explorer and forest conservationist. She is one of the world’s first arbornauts and has climbed trees in over forty countries. Lowman is the executive director of the TREE Foundation and the founder of Mission Green, a project to build canopy walkways in the world’s ten most endangered, high-biodiversity forests. Lowman has authored eleven books, including The Arbornaut and Life in the Treetops.
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Uitgever: University of Chicago Press
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