{"product_id":"9781847927828","title":"The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Harriet Rix\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePopular science\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 August 2025 by Vintage Publishing (The Bodley Head Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e164 x 243 x 36mm | 624g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Wondrous. Gives us trees as we've never seen them before’ ISABELLA TREE, author of Wilding'If I was dazzled by nature and in awe of trees before, I now know how much we are indebted to them’ KIRSTY WARKThe Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once transporting and expert, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Sublime ... It is a true masterpiece' DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5 Stars'Mind-blowing' GUARDIAN‘Exceptional’ ROBIN LANE FOX, Financial Times Gardening Columnist'Full of wonder and revelation ... Highly recommended' SUE STUART-SMITH, author of The Well Gardened Mind\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harriet Rix","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261348229445,"sku":"9781847927828","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781847927828.jpg?v=1763038421","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781847927828","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}