Geographical Magazine
Geographical's pick of the books: May 2021
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BOOK OF THE MONTH:
FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
Forester Suzanne Simard becomes a ‘forest detective’ and begins to challenge the short-sighted management practices that threaten the long-term survival of forests. One very hot British Columbian summer, she begins to discover types of fungal network – ‘mycorrhiza’ or, literally, ‘fungus root’ – that trade ‘water and nutrients from the soil in exchange for sugars... from their plant partners’. Hundreds of them, all doing different tasks.
Tim Marshall follows up on his hugely successful