{"product_id":"the-genius-of-trees-harriet-rix-9781847927835","title":"The Genius of Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mesmerising, mind-expanding global story which shows how trees have learned to use the soil, air, water, plants, fungi, fire, animals and people around them to shape our world - possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Genius of Trees tells a mind-expanding global story revealing the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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","brand":"Harriet Rix","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48340381630707,"sku":"9781847927835","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781847927835.jpg?v=1767728248","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-genius-of-trees-harriet-rix-9781847927835","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}