Between Earth and Sky

Between Earth and Sky

Our Intimate Connections to Trees

$26.95

Publication Date: 28th October 2009

World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering... Read More
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World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering... Read More
Description
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.
Details
  • Price: $26.95
  • Pages: 336
  • Carton Quantity: 16
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Publication Date: 28th October 2009
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustration Note: 29 b-w photographs
  • ISBN: 9780520261655
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany
    NATURE / Plants / General
Reviews
“Anyone who loves trees, who admires their steadfastness, who finds in their presence a certain peace . . . will love this book.”
- Canadian Field-Naturalist
“Nadkarni's writing is like a love letter to trees that effortlessly mixes poetry and prose with environmentalism, culture, history and science.”
- Foreword
“A wealth of entertaining arboreal facts and figures, but her personal anecdotes are the book's most compelling and inimitable feature.”
- Publishers Weekly
“Nadkarni is a wonder. . . . Every page enthralls.”
- Terrain Magazine
“Nadkarni introduces readers to trees in a stunning variety of ways.”
- Frederick J. Swanson, Us Forest Service, Oregon Historical Qtly
“Uplifting and edifying. . . . Nadkarni has given us . . . a kind of encyclopedic examination of nearly EVERYTHING that has to do with trees.”
- Ecology
“A wide-ranging and eye-opening book about trees and our connections to them.”
- New Scientist
Author Bio
Nalini Nadkarni is the author of Rainforests, with J. Johnson, Monteverde: The Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest, with N.T. Wheelwright, and Forest Canopies, with M.L. Lowman. She teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at The Evergreen State College and is President of the International Canopy Network. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Natural History, Glamour, and National Geographic and she has appeared in numerous television documentaries. In 2002, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to better extend her work to the public.
Nalini Nadkarni is the 2010 recipient of the National Science Board Public Service Award, presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions in public understanding of science in the United States.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: View from the Top

1. What Is a Tree?
2. Goods and Services
3. Shelter and Protection
4. Health and Healing
5. Play and Imagination
6. Connections to Time
7. Signs and Symbols
8. Spirituality and Religion
9. Mindfulness

Scientific Names of Trees in the Text
Notes
Recommended Readings
Poetry Credits
Index
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.
  • Price: $26.95
  • Pages: 336
  • Carton Quantity: 16
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Publication Date: 28th October 2009
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustrations Note: 29 b-w photographs
  • ISBN: 9780520261655
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany
    NATURE / Plants / General
“Anyone who loves trees, who admires their steadfastness, who finds in their presence a certain peace . . . will love this book.”
– Canadian Field-Naturalist
“Nadkarni's writing is like a love letter to trees that effortlessly mixes poetry and prose with environmentalism, culture, history and science.”
– Foreword
“A wealth of entertaining arboreal facts and figures, but her personal anecdotes are the book's most compelling and inimitable feature.”
– Publishers Weekly
“Nadkarni is a wonder. . . . Every page enthralls.”
– Terrain Magazine
“Nadkarni introduces readers to trees in a stunning variety of ways.”
– Frederick J. Swanson, Us Forest Service, Oregon Historical Qtly
“Uplifting and edifying. . . . Nadkarni has given us . . . a kind of encyclopedic examination of nearly EVERYTHING that has to do with trees.”
– Ecology
“A wide-ranging and eye-opening book about trees and our connections to them.”
– New Scientist
Nalini Nadkarni is the author of Rainforests, with J. Johnson, Monteverde: The Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest, with N.T. Wheelwright, and Forest Canopies, with M.L. Lowman. She teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at The Evergreen State College and is President of the International Canopy Network. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Natural History, Glamour, and National Geographic and she has appeared in numerous television documentaries. In 2002, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to better extend her work to the public.
Nalini Nadkarni is the 2010 recipient of the National Science Board Public Service Award, presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions in public understanding of science in the United States.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: View from the Top

1. What Is a Tree?
2. Goods and Services
3. Shelter and Protection
4. Health and Healing
5. Play and Imagination
6. Connections to Time
7. Signs and Symbols
8. Spirituality and Religion
9. Mindfulness

Scientific Names of Trees in the Text
Notes
Recommended Readings
Poetry Credits
Index