The Experiment How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

A gem of a book. A scientific book written as an interesting novel. I will never look at trees the same way again !.

You will see trees in a whole new light after reading this book.

Very well written, easy to read and full of tree information that you probably never even thought about before. Will make you look at trees from a different perspective. There is a lot of information in the book, too much to take in in one go, but read a chapter, read a few pages or just read a page and then find some woodland to see for yourself the ‘hidden in plain view’ character of trees.

Purchased for a friend. They enjoyed the book.

I could write a book about this book. After the first five pages I knew my forest hiking was already permanently changed. After five more I began ordering copies for some fellow tree-loving friends. Later still I felt my brain could not hold any more information and figured Gooley must be running out. No, I was only halfway through. How could I have been walking by so many trees for years and not seen all this, read so many books about trees and not known all this? Well, Gooley has dedicated his life to seeing all these stories in the leaves, bark, trunk shape, root patterns, branching, etc., etc. and he's just really, really good at it. But, he makes it all so clear and it's as easy to read as a novel (I'd planned to read a few pages a day. So factual). My advice is to stop reading reviews and just order it. Better get a couple.