A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent
environmental message. 'Evocative wise and unflinching' Jay Griffiths author of Wild The
Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change where the trees have been creeping towards
the pole for fifty years already. Scientists are only just beginning to understand the
astonishing significance of these northern forests for all life on Earth. At the treeline
Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of
colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the
forest we have always evolved with trees and The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might
take us next. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'A moving thoughtful deeply
reported elegy for our vanishing world and a map of the one to come' Nathaniel Rich author of
Losing Earth'A lyrical and passionate book... The Treeline is a sobering powerful account of
how trees might just save the world as long as we are sensible enough to let them' Mail on
Sunday'Ben Rawlence circumnavigates the very top of the globe - returning with a warning in
this enthralling and wonderfully written book' Mark Lynas author of Six Degrees
