The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet | Jim Robbins
Describes the efforts of a former alcoholic nurseryman, whose near-death experience prompted him to attempt to find the best specimens of the U.S.' 872 known species of trees and use them to propagate their offspring around the world. By the author of A Symphony in the Brain. 25,000 first printing.