The Forest Unseen
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. 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, 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, inspired by the paintings of sand created by Tibetan as a support for meditation.Awards
- Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature
- Winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award.
- Winner of the 2013 National Academies Communication Award for Best Book.
- Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
- Winner of the 2016 Dapeng Nature Book Award.