{"product_id":"eating-dirt-charlotte-gill-9781553657927","title":"Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe","description":"- Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003e- Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e- Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize\u003cbr\u003e- Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEating Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Gill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1553657926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781553657927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greystone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Libris Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e RBC Taylor Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2011 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire Books of the Yr\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/23\/2013","brand":"Charlotte Gill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980081889535,"sku":"9781553657927","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c3a69ac-dec8-4db5-a592-387ce8b870c6.jpg?v=1683248282","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eating-dirt-charlotte-gill-9781553657927","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}