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

Description: Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill * Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description * Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction * Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editors 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 Ive read in a long time."- Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company During Charlotte Gills 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 Biography 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 Generals 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. Review "Charlotte Gill cuts to the bone with words so taut and commanding they expose the toughness required to march through life in the forestry business."—ForeWord Magazine "An arresting look into another world. ...What sets "Eating Dirt" apart is the vividness of the writing. Gills prose puts the wasp in your shirt, the weariness in you at the cellular level, the grizzly too close for comfort."--Seattle Times "[a] brilliant memoir ...Gills stories are fascinating, but she is possessed of that rarest of attributes among memoirists: an understanding of her own story as only a part of a broader picture, a willingness to broaden the focus beyond the particulars of her personal experience. ...This is a deeply researched, beautifully written book." --Emily St. John Mandel, The Millions "Never have I read such a beautiful book with such a dull premise: what its like to plant tree seedlings in the wake of logging companies destruction. ...Gill turns a subject that might seem narrow and confined into a lyrical essay about labor and rest, decay and growth" --Smithsonian Magazine "Charlotte Gill gets my enthusiastic vote as the best nonfiction book of 2012. ...highly readable ...Gills narrative is by turns gripping, funny, informative but always tactile" --John Sledge, Alabama Press Register "The humility that lies in the title of Charlotte Gills extraordinary Eating Dirt is more than borne out in this astonishing chronicle of work, the elements, and place. ...Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that Ive read in a long time." -Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company "The trees they plant each year "shimmy in the wind. There, we say. We did this with our hands. We didnt make millions, and we didnt cure AIDS. But at least a thousand new trees are breathing." For that, she can be proud--and it makes for a good story." --Publishers Weekly "An inspired narrative in a unique topic that is half memoir, half magic. ...A radiant piece of non-fiction by a talented writer, whose descriptions will make your back ache by the time you finish reading." --Sacramento Book Review, 5 stars "In language as sharp as obsidian, as unsentimental as a clear-cut, Charlotte Gill tells the story of her tree-planting tribe, men and women who spend their lives atoning for the deeds of the rest of us who, to this day, continue to sacrifice the greatest temperate rainforest on earth on the altar of our prosperity." --Wade Davis "Charlotte Gill is everything you could want from a storyteller: honest and wise, leanly lyrical, tough and tender in equal measure. In this exquisite book about a gnarly occupation, we come to appreciate the resilience of nature and humans both." --Philip Connors, author of Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout Prizes Winner of Libris Awards (Nonfiction) 2012 Winner of IndieFab awards (Editors Choice Nonfic) 2012 Commended for Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction 2011 Commended for RBC Taylor Prize 2012 Long Description * Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction * Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editors 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 Ive read in a long time." -Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company During Charlotte Gills 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 Review Text With this book, Charlotte Gill has fitted a key piece, long missing from the story of West Coast logging. What happens after these wild landscapes have been stripped of trees is an important, if painful topic, and it is hard to imagine a writer (and tree planter!) better qualified than Gill to tell this story of death and rebirth in the woods. In the same spare, unflinching prose that brought her such acclaim for her short stories, Gill takes us into the remote and rarely seen world of the tree planter, immersing us in the unique combination of sweat, fog, heartache and humor that distinguishes it from all other labors. --John Vaillant Review Quote "The humility that lies in the title of Charlotte Gills extraordinary Eating Dirt is more than borne out in this astonishing chronicle of work, the elements, and place. ...Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that Ive read in a long time. " -Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company " In language as sharp as obsidian, as unsentimental as a clear-cut, Charlotte Gill tells the story of her tree-planting tribe, men and women who spend their lives atoning for the deeds of the rest of us who, to this day, continue to sacrifice the greatest temperate rainforest on earth on the altar of our prosperity." --Wade Davis "Charlotte Gill is everything you could want from a storyteller: honest and wise, leanly lyrical, tough and tender in equal measure. In this exquisite book about a gnarly occupation, we come to appreciate the resilience of nature and humans both. " --Philip Connors, author of Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout Details ISBN1553657926 Author Charlotte Gill Short Title EATING DIRT Language English ISBN-10 1553657926 ISBN-13 9781553657927 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2012 Imprint Greystone Books,Canada Subtitle Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe Country of Publication Canada Publication Date 2012-08-09 UK Release Date 2012-08-09 Series David Suzuki Institute Pages 288 Publisher Greystone Books,Canada DEWEY 333.75153097 Audience General AU Release Date 2012-07-23 Illustrations Color and B&W illustrations throughout We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137782236;

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