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La vida secreta de los árbolessecond-hand

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Published by OBELISCO · Mathematics and science · ISBN 9788491110835

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A popular non-fiction book published in 2015 by Peter Wohlleben, a German forester who spent twenty years as a ranger in a forest in the Rhineland. Drawing on that experience and on recent research, he explains how trees communicate through their roots, feed one another and defend themselves against attack, so that the forest works as a living system where everything depends on everything else.

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Who it's for
For readers curious about nature who want a book on forests without jargon: the author himself steps away from a scientific tone. It will also interest anyone wondering about forestry, since he criticises mass plantations of same-age trees.
Why people still read it
By 2017 it had sold a million copies in over forty countries, and it was a New York Times bestseller. A 2016 documentary based on it, Intelligent Trees, has drawn controversy, as the book has.

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