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Synopsis
This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the BBC and climbing trees.
James’s climbs take him around the globe, scaling the most incredible and majestic trees in existence: the strangler fig tree of Borneo, the monolithic Congolese moabi tree, the fern-covered howler tree of Costa Rica and the colossal mountain ash of Australia. On the way he meets native tribes and jungle cats, he gets stung by African bees and chased by gorillas, and he spends his nights in a hammock pitched hundreds of feet up in the air, with only the stars above him.
This book blends incredible stories of his adventures in the branches and a fascination with the majesty of trees to show us the joy of rising – literally – above the daily grind, up into the canopy of the forest.
'The wide horizontal branches stretched away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the centre of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of fallow deer I had been following emerged from the trees, carefully picking their way through the churned-up leaf litter to pass beneath me in the wake of the ponies. They had been there all along and I was immediately struck that not one of them appeared to have seen or smelt me as I crouched in the arms of the oak directly above.'
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About the Author
James Aldred (Author)
James grew up on the edge of the New Forest and spent his teenage years exploring it. By fourteen he was building forest shelters and sleeping rough in the woods. By sixteen he was spending much of his time up in the branches. These days, he works in the treetops as an Emmy award-winning wildlife cameraman and has collaborated on many landmark BBC natural history programmes with David Attenborough such as Planet Earth and Human Planet. The Man Who Climbs Trees is his first book.
From the Inside Flap
This is the story of James Aldred – a man who has made a living climbing trees.
Everything changes when you go vertical, rising high above the daily grind.
How do things look atop a strangler fig tree in Borneo? Or hanging from a rope in riot gear to film an eagle nest in Venezuela? Or free climbing in the Congo, to see past the elephants and gorillas on the forest floor?
And what started this journey, in a hammock high in the New Forest many years ago, watching the sunrise?
Adventure meets wonder in the canopy of leaves: discover the joy of a life lived aboveground.
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- PublisherWH Allen
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0753545896
- ISBN 13 9780753545898
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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