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  • Two Trees Make A Forest: On Memory, Migration And Taiwan
    • Two Trees Make A Forest: On Memory, Migration And Taiwan

    Two Trees Make A Forest: On Memory, Migration And Taiwan

    Jessica j. lee

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    Both clear-eyed and tender hearted, Two Trees Make a Forest is a profound and gorgeously written meditation on the natural and familial environments that shape us.

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      "I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a civilisation grown inland from the sea, the vastness of mountains was a better analogue: (dao, 'island') built from the relationship between earth and sky."

      Between tectonic plates and conflicting cultures, Taiwan is an island of extremes: high mountains, exposed flatlands, thick forests. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, written on the cusp of his total memory loss, Jessica J Lee hunts his story, in parallel with exploring Taiwan, hoping to understand the quakes that brought her family from China, to Taiwan and Canada, and the ways in which our human stories are interlaced with geographical forces. Part-nature writing, part-biography, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.

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      • Shortlisted for the 2020 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
      • Extraordinarily revealing and beautiful nature writing
      • Brilliantly praised by writers such as Robert Macfarlane and Amy Liptrot A fascinating story about a Chinese/Taiwanese family
      • The story of a family told through landscape and history
      • 3 Year Alpine Bond

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      Cover: Paperback
      Pages: 256
      ISBN: 9780349011042