THE SONGS OF TREES

A study of humanity's varied roles within biological networks as heard through the acoustics of trees.

David Haskell's work integrates scientific and contemplative studies of natural world. His book, The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (Viking Penguin, 2012), was winner of the National Academies' Best Book Award for 2013, finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction, winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award, winner the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, and runner-up for the 2013 PEN E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.