In Search of Ancient Trees: A Wayward Quest for America's Oldest Living Things

For readers of Bill Bryson and Ed Yong, a cross-country road trip to America's ancient trees, reveling in natural wonder and exploring what old trees reveal about our environment, our history, and our future

We often think of ourselves as the stewards of the forests. But since before the spark of civilization, trees have been silent engineers of ecosystems and even shaped human evolution. Trees made us, have sustained us, and we couldn't survive without them. The problem is we don't know how...