Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Gill, Charlotte

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781553657927)

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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Gill, Charlotte

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

$18.95
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Gill, Charlotte

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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- Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
- Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction
- Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize
- Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award

"Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that I've read in a long time."-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company

During Charlotte Gill's 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.

In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree-planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests, which evolved over millennia into intricate, complex ecosystems. Among other topics, she also touches on the boom-and-bust history of logging and the versatility of wood, from which we have devised


Author: Charlotte Gill
ISBN-10: 1553657926
ISBN-13: 9781553657927
Publisher: Greystone Books
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Award: Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction - Finalist
Award: Libris Awards - Winner
Award: RBC Taylor Prize - Finalist
Award: IndieFab awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 09/01/2011 pg. 27
Quill & Quire Books of the Yr 12/01/2011 pg. 16
Publishers Weekly 09/03/2012
Foreword 07/23/2013
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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.

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