Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber and life with the tree-planting tribe / Charlotte Gill.
Fiction writer Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada and offers up a slice of tree planting life, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems.
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- ISBN: 9781553659778 (hc.)
- ISBN: 1553659775 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9781553657927 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 247 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver : Greystone Books, c2011.
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General Note: | Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
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Subject: | Tree planting > Canada. Tree planters (Persons) > Canada. Forests and forestry > Canada. |
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Charlotte Gill was born in London, England and raised in the United States (upstate New York) and Canada. She spent nearly two decades working in the forests of Canada and has planted more than a million trees. Gill has received many accolades for her writing, including nominations for the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award, Hilary Weston Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her story collection Ladykiller won the Danuta Gleed Award and BC Book Prize.
Charlotte Gill was born in London, England and raised in the United States (upstate New York) and Canada. She spent nearly two decades working in the forests of Canada and has planted more than a million trees. Gill has received many accolades for her writing, including nominations for the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award, Hilary Weston Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her story collection Ladykiller won the Danuta Gleed Award and BC Book Prize.