La Foresta Nascosta: Un Anno Trascorso A Osservare La Natura (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Excellent, informative and delightful. This differs from many nature books in that Haskell has used local observations to expand on more general science topics – fungi, pest control, how chemicals move within leaves, to mention only a few – so that even though his “mandala” focus is in Tennessee, most of it applies to my rainy region in Oregon. Haskell is a scientist, but is still able to write that a slug has a mantle that stetches “the entire length of the back, like the icing on a pastry eclair.” If you are at all interested in the natural world, you will be delighted by this book. The author goes to the same spot in the forest every week (or so) for a year, and writes about what he observes. But he adds a biologists expertise and a poet's sensibility to his observations, so you not only learn a great deal, you become enlightened as much as educated. I read the book week by week over the course of the year, so my readings coincided with the seasons he was writing about (even though I live in a slightly different climate than he; it still was an effective approach for me.) Highly recommend this book!
What do You think about La Foresta Nascosta: Un Anno Trascorso A Osservare La Natura (2014)?
Every chapter of this book made me pause and think. It's a wonderful book.
—maysu
Great meditations on nature and the proccesses that occur.
—yoman
