NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Adventure Travel WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2021 On CBC's list of "the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020" An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan from the winner of the RBC ...
Read More
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Adventure Travel WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2021 On CBC's list of "the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020" An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan from the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for Emerging Writers " Two Trees Make a Forest is a finely faceted meditation on memory, love, landscape--and finding a home in language. Its short, shining sections tilt yearningly toward one another; in form as well as content, this is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places, and the means of their bridging." --Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Read Less
Add this copy of Two Trees Make a Forest: in Search of My Family's Past to cart. $11.60, new condition, Sold by Warriors SG rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Somerset, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Catapult.
Add this copy of Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past to cart. $11.82, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2020 by Catapult.
Add this copy of Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past to cart. $12.36, new condition, Sold by GreatBookPrices rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Columbia, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Catapult.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
Add this copy of Twotreesmakeaforest Format: Paperback to cart. $12.43, new condition, Sold by indoo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Avenel, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Catapult.
Add this copy of Two Trees Make a Forest to cart. $12.99, new condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 2020 by Hamish Hamilton.
Add this copy of Two Trees Make a Forest: in Search of My Family's Past to cart. $20.95, new condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 2020 by Catapult.
Add this copy of Two Trees Make a Forest: in Search of My Family's Past to cart. $21.01, new condition, Sold by Magers and Quinn Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Catapult.
