Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale

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

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

allows her to balance research with personal narrative

casting our narrator onto "the factory floor of hell

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Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scaleJournalist 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