Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests casting our narrator onto "the

casting our narrator onto "the factory floor of hell

While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works

Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories

One hundred thousand years ago

allows her to balance research with personal narrative

Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests casting our narrator onto "theJournalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women's Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. Run by twin sister tree doctors Bear LeVangie and Melissa LeVangie Ingersoll, the workshop helps people from everyday tree lovers to women arborists working in a largely male industry develop impressive technical skills and ascend into the canopy. As Holloway tackles unfamiliar equipment