Author: Preston, Richard

Hidden in foggy rainforest valleys in northern California are the largest organisms on record - the coast redwood trees, with trunks up to thirty feet wide, rising more than 35 stories above the ground. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. This book unfolds the story of the tiny group of daring botanists and naturalists who explored the unknown ecosystems of the redwood canopy for the first time. Now in paper.