The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees Hardcover – April 7, 2022

I truly enjoy this book. It has tons of information and interesting details about how trees were viewed in history. It’s a nice hardcover book with beautiful pictures and amazing details.

This is a wonderful book with beautiful photos and great information. This is part of the Smithsonian Collection and every one of these books is fantastic. As you can see from my photos, each page is laid out very well, with easy-to-read text, and fantastic pictures. These books are for anyone....from younger children to grandparents.My only suggestion to Amazon when shipping these beautiful books is to wrap them in bubble wrap or some protective material to ensure the books arrive in great condition with no dings or rub marks from just being placed in a box with no protective wrap. Most of these books do arrive in good condition, but a little more protection would be appreciated. THANKS and Cheers!

This is a great tree book - something for everyone. It has excellent illustrations and photographs, great terminology, well laid out and well written. It is easy to dip into and read a chapter here or there, or straight through over a few days. I will use it as a resource to look things up again. I appreciated the coherent writing on many landscape subjects including: Climate change, deforestation, diversity, and other important topics. I recognized a number of names of people in the field and know they are good sources.

Helpful in tree identification, but also in learning a bit of history and geography. The art, photos, cover, and design are beautiful.

The Bristlecone Pine section started fine then I stumbled over two incredible, unimaginable errors:- TEMPERATURE ERROR: Bristlecone Pines were stated as growing in up to 158F in summer (at least they got the season right) ... that is 24 degrees hotter than has ever been recorded anywhere on Planet Earth! I think surely the author(s) meant the accurate measure of 58F, not 158F. But then again, the article gave that range in Celsius as 70C (=158F). So the error was not just an accidental addition of "1" before the "58".- LOCATION ERROR: Bristlecone Pines were stated as being in the rain shadow east of the Rocky Mountains. Huh??? Not even a grade-schooler doing a book report on Bristlecones would make such a wildly inaccurate mistake! I have known since grade school that the Rockies are immediately west of the Great Plains, not immediately west of the Bristlecone home of the White Mountains and the Basin and Range province. A lesser Bristlecone lives IN the high Rockies but NO Bristlecones live in the rain shadow of the Rockies. Obviously, the writer meant the rain shadow caused by the Sierra Nevada. How one can ever confuse Sierra with Rockies is unimaginable.To make such GREAT ERRORS, so easy to catch and correct, tells me the editors failed to actually read their drafts and proofs or were woefully unqualified to write ANY book on trees.IMPLICATIONS: seeing such major errors has to shake one's confidence about the rest of the book.I have seen no further errors yet (I'm only 20% into the book) but maybe there are major errors elsewhere. I am not an expert on most of the trees described and maybe am missing similarly egregious errors.OVERALL: after deducting one star, I think the rest of the book certainly merits a high rating. It has been a well done review/overview for me.[NOTE: If this book was a (very, very long) Wiki article I would have already corrected those two errors myself (anyone can edit a wiki page). But this is a permanent coffee table book, expensively produced and set in stone. Sad but true. Future editions (ever?) could correct these mistakes but the damage is done, small though it may be.]

I have a few books in this series, and wow these books really are great. This one is no exception. Do you like trees? Do you have someone in your life that likes trees? This is a great book for that person. Well made, beautifully designed and wonderfully written. Would highly recommend.

This books is beautiful, well made, and super informational!

Amazing book about trees. Great visual & information about trees.