The arbornaut : a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us
Record details
- ISBN: 0374162697
- ISBN: 9780374162696
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Physical Description:
xi, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle -- Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring astronaut -- Prologue: How to see the world tree (and what that means for the forest) -- From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America -- Becoming a forest detective : first encounter with temperate trees from New England to Scotland -- One hundred feet in the air : finding a way to study leaves in the Australian rain forests -- Who ate my leaves? : tracking -- and discovering! -- Australian insects -- Dieback in the outback : juggling marriage and investigations of gum tree death in Australia's sheep country -- Hitting the glass canopy : how Strangler figs and Tall poppies taught me to survive as a woman in science -- Arbornauts for a week : citizen scientists explore the Amazon jungles -- Tiger tracks, tree leopards, and Vedippala fruits : exporting my toolkit to train arbornauts in India -- A treetop bioblitz : counting 1,659 species in Malysia's tropical forests in ten days -- Building trust between priests and arbornauts : saving the forests of Ethiopia, one church at a time -- Classrooms in the sky -- for everyone! : wheelchairs and water bears in the treetops -- Can we save our last, best forests? : promoting conservation through Mission Green. |
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Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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- 23 of 23 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Cambria County Library | 581.7 L918a (Text) | 85131001773929 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Degenstein Community Library | NF 581.7092 LOWMAN (Text) | 35031301189260 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults Lowman Biography (Text) | 34001001398278 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Exeter Community Library | 581.709 LOW (Text) | 33249024805925 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library | Adults 581.7 LOW Nonfiction (Text)
Bookplate:
Plated 2021: In Memory of William Victor Snyder
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34007002442577 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) | 581.7092 LOWMAN (Text)
Memorial:
This book is donated in memory of Margaret "Peg" Paris by Drusilla Warner
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35740635753841 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library | 581.7092 Low 2021 (Text) | 10HOL00047180/ | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | NF 581.7 LOW (Text) | 30298100588940 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 581.7092 Lowman Nature (Text) | 39427103598348 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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