Richard preston the wild trees
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Dr richard preston...
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
When I was a child I loved climbing into our apricot and French plum trees. Climbing was fun, eating the fruit was better.
My dog Rex would sit under the plum tree waiting for me to give him some fruit. Yes, a dog eating plums.
But I grew out of the desire to climb trees after my preteen years,
while the botanists and other men and women in this book continued to climb, sometimes to their deaths.
This book is about finding the tallest tree in the redwoods, but why they had to then climb them after measuring them from the ground, I do not know.
It is just that I don’t understand this desire, except to say that they had found huckleberry bushes growing in them as well as bonsais. This would make them worth climbing, that is, if it were not so dangerous.
The author spends a few beginning chapters talking about the deaths of people who had climbed these tall trees, and he was very graphic in giving t
