The Treeline

The very treeline is on the move: a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will mean for humanity.

Jay Griffiths, author of WILD

[A] moving, thoughtful, deeply reported elegy for our vanishing world and a map of the one to come.

Nathaniel Rich, author of LOSING EARTH

An urgent and insightful tour of some of the world's strangest, most bewitching and most endangered environments... This is an important book, and one I will be pressing into other people's hands.

Cal Flyn, author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT

A fascinating book drawing on a brilliant, original line of thinking... A perfect combination of lyrical writing and rigorous reporting. Utterly illuminating.

Sophy Roberts, author of THE LOST PIANOS OF SIBERIA

What an extraordinary book this is! ... This is not just a description of a warming world but an active invitation to live differently, to participate with wisdom and humility in the cacophonous and ever-unfinished abundance of terrestrial life.

Ben Ehrenreich, author of DESERT NOTEBOOKS

Ben Rawlence circumnavigates the very top of the globe - returning with a warning, in this enthralling and wonderfully written book, that all would do well to heed.

Mark Lynas, author of SIX DEGREES

Rawlence evokes the natural world in lyrical, delicate prose... A timely, urgent message delivered in graceful fashion.

Kirkus, starred review

Compelling, intriguing, and thoroughly engaging... A title of the utmost importance at a time of tremendous peril, The Treeline is a game-changer.

Booklist

Rawlence is a fine ecologist and an excellent writer... The Treeline is timely, salutary and eminently readable. Excellent.

Colin Tudge, Resurgence & Ecology

[An] urgent investigation into the Arctic treeline... a meticulously researched and compellingly presented read.

Hannah Beckerman, Observer

A lyrical travelogue documenting the decline of the great boreal forests that encircle the north of the globe, and the cultures that depend on them... A grim and thought-provoking read.

Rory Dusoir, Gardens Illustrated

[A] lyrical and passionate book... The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world.

Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

Twill rightly provoke fear, but also a sense of wonder ... A beautiful and evocative portrait of the natural world. It is essential reading for those hoping to better understand our changing planet.

Tom Lathan, Spectator

Absolutely fantastic and devastating.

Emma Gannon, author of DISCONNECTED

[A] sweeping account of the Arctic forest that circles the world in an almost unbroken ring.

Financial Times

Beautiful and affecting.

Herald

Ben Rawlence... writes with accuracy, beauty and urgency.

Andrew Robinson, Nature

A sobering account... The Treeline is a powerful reminder of the far-off impacts of global warming.

Kit Gillet, Geographical

[An] excellent read.

Stephen J Scaybrook, Architectural Technology Journal

The Treeline is wise and considered, offering both klaxon warning about the state of the earth and beautiful hymn to its interdependencies.

Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru

This original and readable book takes readers to a part of the world undergoing radical but little-understood change.

Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

[A] riveting, rigorous (and frankly terrifying) book.

Guardian