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Join us for our monthly Environmental Book Club discussion night! Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month, except December. For more information, visit riveraction.org/bookclub or email [email protected].
**SEPTEMBER'S PICK - The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell**
The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees.
David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees.
Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.
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Missed September's Book Club? Check out October's Pick - Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
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822 E River Dr, Davenport, IA 52803-5735, United States
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