THE GLOBAL FOREST

Book ID/图书代码： 14935508B24102

English Summary/英文概要： The Global Forest is comprised of forty very short allegorical essays that combine science and spirituality in putting forth its strong theme of the interconnectedness of the natural world and the loss of biodiversity when forests are cut down. The form of the book recalls the voice and the style of the Seanchaí, the storytelling drifter of the old Irish landscape. Its short pieces will have a cumulative, paradigm-shifting impact on a world of readers who are "ready to fall in love with nature again." Embedding the essays with scientific adventure stories in miniature, she offers a plan for sustainable biodiversity in the face of climate change that is disarmingly simple but also quite revolutionary.
Diana’s unique life story--a member of a prominent Irish family, she was orphaned at 11, made a ward of the state and put into the care of a group of Gaelic elders, who taught her the old ways of thinking, the old laws and language--and her original and intuitive scientific thinking have given her a growing platform in print, on the radio and on television. She is known as "The Renegade Scientist" and sometimes as the E.O. Wilson of Canada. Viking in the U.S. and Penguin Canada are combining efforts for a massive North American tour.
The Global Forest is not her first book, but it is the one that should spread her fame around the globe and just possibly help to save the planet from the impact of climate change and global warming.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 透過四十篇帶有寓意的短文，傳達森林消失對於生物多樣性的影響。這些描寫自然環境與生物的文章，融合科學知識、文化與人文思想，特別的是此書寫作的風格就向古老的愛爾蘭說書人，重新讓人審思與自然的關係，讓人重新愛上自然，體會生物多樣性對人類的重要。
研究植物學與生物化學的專家Diana Beresford-Kroeger在著名的愛爾蘭家族長大，試圖將傳統醫療與現代西方醫療與生物結合。她接受許多古老愛爾蘭文化的浸淫，將許多古老智慧帶入現代的科學研究。(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：被譽為當代達爾文，提出生物多樣性理論的哈佛大學著名研究者E.O. Wilson盛讚，紐約時報專欄作家Jim Robbins盛讚

Harvard biologist and author E.O. Wilson said: "The essays of The Global Forest are a beautiful and poetic tribute to their subject, based on wide-ranging scientific knowledge." 被譽為當代達爾文，提出生物多樣性理論的哈佛大學著名研究者E.O. Wilson
“Her ideas are a rare, if not entirely new approach to natural history,” said Edward O. Wilson “The science of selecting trees for different uses around the world has not been well studied.”
New York Times, Jim Robbins (author of A Symphony in the Brain and co-author of The Open-Focus Brain), August 11, 2008---http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/science/12prof.html?ref=science
美國公共廣播電台（ National Public Radio）的〔以地球為生〕（Living on Earth）---National Public Radio program Living on Earth, which gives a sample of the delightfully charismatic and brilliant Diana Beresford-Kroeger:http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=08-P13-00017
"On occasion, someone understands a subject so deeply that information is transmuted into wisdom. This book marks one of those occasions--it is rich and hopeful and compelling in a quiet, insistent way."-Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Please share as appropriate this wonderful trailer for the film, which will be released in the fall and had its first, wildly successful preview screening a few days ago.

http://www.stuartbernstein.com/dianaberesford-kroeger.html

About the Author/作者介绍： DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author, whose work uniquely combines western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world. Her books include The Sweetness of a Simple Life, The Global Forest, Arboretum Borealis, Arboretum America--which won the National Arbor Day Foundation Award for exemplary educational work on trees and forests--Time Will Tell, and A Garden for Life. Among many honours, Beresford-Kroeger was inducted as a WINGS WorldQuest fellow in 2010 and elected as a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2011. More recently, in 2016, the Society named her one of 25 women explorers of Canada. Her work has inspired artists and writers, as well as leading scientists. She is the author and presenter of a feature documentary, Call of the Forest, and is also at the heart of an upcoming three-part series airing on PBS called The Truth about Trees. Currently she is advocating on behalf of an ambitious global "bioplan" encouraging ordinary people to develop a new relationship with nature and join together to restore the global forest.

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