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Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us | Meg Lowman
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"An eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers." --Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife Nicknamed the "Real-Life Lorax" by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman--aka "CanopyMeg"--takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action Welcome to the eighth continent! As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn't monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees. Forty years later, Lowman remains one of the world's foremost arbornauts, known as the "real-life Lorax." She planned one of the first treetop walkways and helps create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. With a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as it is practical in its optimism, The Arbornaut chronicles Lowman's irresistible story. From climbing solo hundreds of feet into the air in Australia's rainforests to measuring tree growth in the northeastern United States, from searching the redwoods of the Pacific coast for new life to studying leaf eaters in Scotland's Highlands, from conducting a BioBlitz in Malaysia to conservation planning in India and collaborating with priests to save Ethiopia's last forests, Lowman launches us into the life and work of a field scientist, ecologist, and conservationist. She offers hope, specific plans, and recommendations for action; despite devastation across the world, through trees, we can still make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. A blend of memoir and fieldwork account, The Arbornaut gives us the chance to live among scientists and travel the world--even in a hot-air balloon! It is the engrossing, uplifting story of a nerdy tree climber--the only girl at the science fair--who becomes a giant inspiration, a groundbreaking, ground-defying field biologist, and a hero for trees everywhere. Includes black-and-white illustrations
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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
The Arbornaut | Meg Lowman
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An incredible memoir of a pioneering scientist, specialist in her field. Meg examines her love for the natural world with expertise and passion for her subject. Researching on a global scale from the States, Scotland, Australia and India, creating arbor walkways to take people up into the canopies, researching in the tree rather than from ground level and so much more.
What an amazing life to read about. This is one of my favourite tree books.

AllDebooks First one finished for #NovelNovember readathon @Andrew65 13mo
rockpools This sounds amazing! 13mo
AllDebooks @rockpools it really is. She's an inspiration for sure 13mo
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 13mo
Bluebird Stacked! 13mo
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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
The Arbornaut | Meg Lowman
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My planned reading for #NovelNovember readathon

🎧 Finish the tagged, which shouldn't take too long as it is amazing!
📚 Catch up with #buddyreads for #LiteraryCrew #Pemberlittens and #NaturaLitsy
📚 Once I've finished The Arbornaut, I'll pick up my 2 chosen books for #BookedinTime
📚 Squeeze another Kazuo Ishiguro in for #AuthorAMonth 🤞

Thank you for hosting @Andrew65 😊

Andrew65 Best of luck, some good book choices there. 😁 13mo
dabbe On the spreadsheet! 🤩 13mo
julieclair The Glass Blowers looks so good! 13mo
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JuniperWilde
JuniperWilde
The Arbornaut | Meg Lowman
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Lowman is a fascinating person and a western leader in conservation.

She pushed our gaze beyond eye level to consider and explore what lies above and lives in tree canopies - which she calls the 8th continent.

Lowman is an adept storyteller interweaving chapters about trees and non human kin (ie insects, birds) as well as (frustrating, infuriating, and inspiring) stories of her personal and professional challenges as a woman in science.

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JuniperWilde
JuniperWilde
The Arbornaut | Meg Lowman
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📚Just started this and already hooked. I am a fan of naturalist writing, including greats like Terry Tempest Williams (if you haven‘t read When Women Were Birds…). The author is quick to point out that places like Costa Rica are not the most biodiverse on earth. Rather they are the most studied and funded by the US. She challenges us to look beyond what we think we know. 💫🌲♥️

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Chelsea.Poole
Chelsea.Poole
The Arbornaut | Meg Lowman
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Meg Lowman has forged a path in life studying tree canopies all over the world — from Australia to Africa to the redwood forests in the US. Her passion for her work is palpable in this audiobook and I found it inspiring. VERY similar to “Finding the Mother Tree” and I shouldn‘t have read them back to back because I‘m sure the details will muddle around in my mind. My own budding Arbornauts pictured 🥰🌳
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Chelsea.Poole @AllDebooks you might be interested in this one! I hate comparing books with personal stories but this one will likely stick out a bit more in my mind compared to our buddy read
[tagged book]Finding the Mother Tree
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mabell Great photos! 2y
JenReadsAlot Adorable! 2y
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mrp27 Aww great pictures! 2y
jlhammar Those photos are too sweet! Interesting that you read this one so close to Mother Tree. Maybe I'll give this one a try next year for bingo. 2y
akaGingerK Lovely review- and cute pics! 2y
Chelsea.Poole @mabell @JenReadsAlot @mrp27 @jlhammar @akaGingerK thanks all! 😊 2y
AllDebooks Your kiddos are so cute, gorgeous pictures x 2y
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Soubhiville
Soubhiville
Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us | Meg Lowman
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This will be my last for #nonfictionnovember.
Meg Lowman was the first scientist to dedicate her studies to the canopy- the very tops of the trees. She studies leaves, branches, life cycles of trees, which has led to studies on the creatures who live in and eat leaves. Mostly insects, but also birds and mammals.

Fun fact I learned: in many spider species the female is up to 100 times the size of the male 😱😬.

Another job I think I‘d love!

Soubhiville Lowman discussed her challenges as a female scientist in what is overwhelmingly a male dominated field. She goes into a lot of detail about jobs she felt forced out of. Also towards the end there is a lot of info about how she was drawn to studies, how she got funded, and naming others who worked with her. It got dull there for me- I was here more for tree science, so I admit to zoning out some of the businessy bits. 3y
Lindy Stacked! 🌳❤️ 3y
Hooked_on_books Oh man, sexism is real! I‘m sure I would relate to her on that. I read a book once about the redwoods (I don‘t remember the title) and was fascinated to learn that there‘s a whole ecosystem in the canopy, including other plants, including trees, growing up there. What a fascinating place is our earth! 🌍 3y
Soubhiville @Hooked_on_books I got to see some of that sort of thing- plants growing in the trees- in the Cloud Forest in Monte Verde Costa Rica. The sky bridges gave me a view of life like I‘ve never seen it. Also got to see strangler fig trees there. There are some so big and so old that with the host tree gone and disintegrated, it‘s possible to climb several stories high inside the strangler fig. So strange and so varied! 3y
Hooked_on_books Climb several stories inside a fig?!? That‘s amazing! I‘m glad there are books like this bringing wonders to everyone who can‘t see them for themselves. Maybe if we get enough people educated about what is here to protect, people will get serious about protecting it. 3y
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Sumi
Sumi
Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us | Meg Lowman
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What an amazing story!
The author is a pioneer in studying forest canopies & the Arbornaut gives us a very personal look at her journey, her struggles & triumphs both in her personal life & mostly in her professional life. Plus, I learned so many new things about plants & all the fauna that make a living on or in them.

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