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Nov 7 2019. ISBN. 9780735239586. Two Trees Make a Forest is a travel memoir by British Canadian author Jessica J. Lee. [1] In it she describes finding a trove of letters written by her grandfather, and how it leads her to travel to her mother's and grandfather's home of Taiwan. In its review the Los Angeles Review of Books described the travel ...
Reviewers noted that her 2019 memoir Two Trees Make a Forest incorporates elements of environmental analysis to her account of exploring Taiwan, where her mother was born. [7] [8] The book won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. [9]
PS3566.O92 O94 2018. The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' twelfth novel. The book is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University ...
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Edna Staebler Award. The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year's best creative nonfiction book with a "Canadian locale and/or significance" that is a Canadian writer 's "first or second published book of any type or genre". It was established by an endowment from Edna Staebler, a ...
The Awakening Land trilogy by Conrad Richter is a series of three novels that explore the lives of a white American frontier family in the Ohio Valley from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th. The series consists of The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950); the third novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951.
Finding the Mother Tree is a memoir by the Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, [1] The Guardian, [2] The Washington Post, [3] The Wall Street Journal, [4] among other publications. [5] In her memoir, Simard asserts that trees in forests are interdependent with fungi mycelium.
The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3,000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for "an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature". The prize was established in 1983 in memory of British climbers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, both of ...