The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring Audiobook (Free)
- Richard Preston
- 5 h 42 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2007-04-10
Summary:
Hidden aside in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in North California will be the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The largest redwoods are over a thousand years old, increasing a lot more than thirty-five tales in what’s left of the once-vast historic redwood forest. Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants possess continued to be unexplored until recently Š whenever a tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists about The Crazy Trees: A TALE of Passion and Daring discovered a lost, dangerous and hauntingly gorgeous globe high above California.
In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of these young voyagers who risk everything to explore the redwood canopy, where the massive trees form traveling buttresses and cathedral-like structures in the air flow. They look for a vertical Eden of hanging gardens and rare animals, an untouched heaven where it is possible to stretch out hammocks between tree branches and have sex 300 ft in the surroundings. But as they undertake the treetops suspended on ropes, far out of view of the ground, these youthful adventurers understand that the smallest mistake can result in a plunge to one’s loss of life.
Preston perfected the methods of tall-tree climbing to recount the breakthrough of the amazing world — a grand experience by converts terrifying, moving, and exciting, from a grasp of nonfiction narrative.
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