The Treeline

Winner of the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

"Original and readable." -Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022

"Superb, inspiring." -Winner, National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications

"Illuminating." -Silver Medalist, National Outdoor Book Awards

Longlisted for the American Library Association's 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

Finalist, 2023 Banff Mountain Book Competition

Finalist, 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world.

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Ca