The Forest Unseen
{{Short description|Book by David G. Haskell}}
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| language = English
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| subject = Ecology
| publisher = Viking Books
| pub_date = 2012
| media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback) and e-book
| pages = 288
| isbn = 978-0-14-312294-4
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature is a 2012 book written by David G. Haskell.
Summary
The book is divided in 43 short chapters ordered by date and roughly covering a whole year.{{Cite web |date=2016-05-20 |title="The Forest Unseen" |url=https://milliontrees.me/2016/05/20/the-forest-unseen/ |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Conservation Sense and Nonsense |language=en}} In each of them the author, which visits almost every day a single square meter randomly chosen of an old-growth forest of Cumberland Plateau (Tennessee), describes what happens to plants, animals and insects living there. These observations give him the opportunity to write not only about the small-scale forest ecology but also on worldwide natural processes. He often calls his small observation field mandala,{{Cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/david-haskell-finds-biology-zen-in-a-patch-of-nature.html | title = Finding Zen in a Patch of Nature | newspaper = New York Times | date = 2012-10-23 | first = James | last = Gorman | access-date = 2018-01-18 }} inspired by the paintings of sand created by Tibetan as a support for meditation.{{Cite web | title = The forest unseen | first = Ruth Ann | last = Grissom | publisher = The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | url = https://ui.uncc.edu/story/forest-unseen | access-date = 2018-01-18}}
Awards
- Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature{{cite web | url = http://www.noba-web.org/books12.htm | title = Winners of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Awards | publisher = The National Outdoor Books Awards Foundation | access-date = 2018-01-18}}
- Winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.southernenvironment.org/projects/reed-environmental-writing-award|title=Reed Environmental Writing Award |publisher=Southern Environmental Law Center|accessdate=December 5, 2016}}
- Winner of the 2013 National Academies Communication Award for Best Book.{{cite web|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=09052013A|title=Academies Announce 2013 Communication Award Winners|publisher=The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |date=September 5, 2013}}
- Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2013-General-Nonfiction|title=2013 Pulitzer Prizes|publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|accessdate=December 5, 2016}}
- Winner of the 2016 Dapeng Nature Book Award (China).{{Cite web | url = http://www.sewanee.edu/newstoday/top/haskell-china-award.php | title = David Haskell receives China's first Nature Writing Award |date = 2016-12-13 | publisher = Sewanee: The University of the South | newspaper= Sewanee Today }}
Translations
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As far as late 2017 The Forest Unseen has been translated into ten languages.{{Cite web | url = http://www.americanforests.org/get-involved/events/forest-footnotes-david-haskell/ | title = American Forests presents Forest Footnotes with David Haskell | publisher = American Forests | access-date = 2018-01-18}}
References
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Category:2012 non-fiction books