{{Infobox book | name = ''The Wild Trees'' | image = The wild trees coverpage.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Richard Preston | country = United States | language = English | cover_artist = | genre = Non-fiction | subject = Tree-climbing | publisher = Random House | release_date = 2007 | media_type = Print (Paperback and Hardback) | isbn=1400064899 | pages = 294 }}
[[File:Lost Monarch.jpg|thumb|300px|Arborist standing next to a redwood named Screaming Titans, described in a chapter of the book – ''The Lost Valley'' – within section 4: Love in Zeus. This redwood tree is located in the Grove of Titans]]
'''''The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring''''' is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods (''Sequoia sempervirens'') and the recreational climbers who climbed them. It is a narrative-style collection of stories from climbers who pioneered redwood climbing, including botanist Steve Sillett, lichenologist Marie Antoine, and Michael Taylor. They inadvertently discovered a thriving ecosystem hidden among the tree tops, {{convert|60|-|90|m|ft|sp=us}} above, of redwood lattices, berry bushes, bonsai trees, epiphytes, lichens, voles, and salamanders.
The book was #83 on Amazon's Best Books of the Year. It was illustrated by Andrew Joslin.
''The Wild Trees'' introduces several characters and provides backgrounds for them, as far back as their childhoods. Throughout the book, information about trees, forests and logging is woven into the story.
Several of the largest and tallest known redwoods are introduced, including descriptions. Details are provided about how these trees are climbed, explored and studied, although many of their specific locations are not given.
==See also== *Hyperion
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web| publisher=Blogcritics magazine | last=Dirga | first=Nik | date=2008-06-12 | url=http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/12/042733.php | title=Book Review: ''The Wild Trees'' by Richard Preston | accessdate=2008-08-02}} *{{cite news| work=The New York Times | last=Maslin | first=Janet | authorlink =Janet Maslin| date=2007-04-19 | title=Where the redwoods grow, the oddballs also flourish | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/books/19masl.html | accessdate=2008-08-02}} *[https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Trees-Story-Passion-Daring/dp/1400064899 Amazon.com]
==External links== *"[http://www.wesjones.com/climbing1.htm Climbing the redwoods]", an earlier essay by Preston that appeared in ''The New Yorker''
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