“A Forest Journey” contained extensive end notes, tallying 80 pages in an effort to reduce paper use, these were replaced by online resources to house footnotes and interactive maps, along with a forthcoming teachers guide. It was a prescient finding that Perlin felt compelled to add to “A Forest Journey,” timely evidence of the critical relationship between trees and human health.Īligning with its mission for sustainability and environmental protection, Patagonia uses 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper. New research has demonstrated that deforestation increases the spread of diseases like Lyme in the northeastern United States, and a 2018 paper in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology theorized that bats and coronaviruses were linked to human interference with natural habitats. Suzanne Simard’s groundbreaking research inspired Richard Powers’ ‘The Overstory.’ Now she’s published her own memoir, ‘Finding the Mother Tree.’ And so they asked to republish it.īooks How a descendant of loggers saved forests, inspired Richard Powers and Amy Adams
But for the Chouinards, “A Forest Journey’’ remains a foundational conservation story, one that helps contextualize the current climate crisis. David Graeber, an anthropologist who would go on to write bestselling historical narratives, compared it to “some Greek epic poem spanning 4,000 years of civilization” in a review for The Times.īy 2017, however, it was difficult to find a copy the “inevitably tragic” book, as Graeber had put it, faded in popularity among readers likely more accustomed to zippier histories of resources like cod or salt. The book was recognized as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and was listed as one of the university’s One Hundred Great Books. When “A Forest Journey” was first published, the intertwined history of people and trees was a little-explored topic. Norton: $19.95 276 pp., illustrated) Īs we proceed to demolish the last great forests on Earth in the tropics of both Africa and America, it is easy to believe this catastrophic event is a novelty.
Travel & Experiences Of World Forests and World History : A FOREST JOURNEY From Mesopotamia to North America by John Perlin (W.W. The company that began manufacturing pitons in 1973 and became a global outdoor apparel giant began its own publishing program in 2007. In 1989, the Los Angeles native published “A Forest Journey: From Mesopotamia to North America.” Now, 34 years later, with the help of two influential supporters, the book is embarking on a new journey.Īn updated third edition of “ A Forest Journey” is out next week from a new publisher, Patagonia. The extensive history of forests, from the distant past to our current climate chaos, and the little recognized role wood products served in the development of human civilizations is the life’s work of author John Perlin. It goes almost without saying that we are not repaying the favor. With the emergence of Archaeoptreis, one of the earliest modern trees, our carbon dioxide-blanketed planet was transformed into a hospitable environment for other life forms, including vertebrates and ultimately humans, to develop and flourish. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.īeginning 385 million years ago, trees made the proliferation of life on Earth possible. A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization (Revised)
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