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The Forest Unseen
Book by David G. Haskell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature is a 2012 book written by David G. Haskell.
Summary
The book is divided in 43 short chapters ordered by date and roughly covering a whole year.[1] In each of them the author, which visits almost every day a single square meter randomly chosen of an old-growth forest of Cumberland Plateau (Tennessee), describes what happens to plants, animals and insects living there. These observations give him the opportunity to write not only about the small-scale forest ecology but also on worldwide natural processes. He often calls his small observation field mandala,[2] inspired by the paintings of sand created by Tibetan as a support for meditation.[3]
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Awards
- Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature[4]
- Winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award.[5]
- Winner of the 2013 National Academies Communication Award for Best Book.[6]
- Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.[7]
- Winner of the 2016 Dapeng Nature Book Award (China).[8]
Translations
As far as late 2017 The Forest Unseen has been translated into ten languages.[9]
References
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