The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world

Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.

Author: Lauren E. Oakes
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781541697126


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/20/2018
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2018
Library Journal 10/15/2018 pg. 73
Choice 05/01/2019
Booklist 11/01/2018 pg. 7
Shelf Awareness 01/04/2019

About the Author
Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation scientist and science writer. She has held various appointments at Stanford University over many years, as a researcher, a lecturer, and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth System Science. Author of In Search of the Canary Tree, she lives in Bozeman, Montana.