“Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a “biography” of this extraordinary — and extraordinarily important — organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the organism’s modest origins that begin with a dramatic burst of millions of microscopic grains of pollen. The authors recount the amazing characteristics of the species, how they reproduce and how they receive from and offer nourishment to generations of other plants and animals. The tree’s pivotal role in making life possible for the creatures around it — including human beings — is lovingly explored. The richly detailed text and Robert Bateman’s original art pay tribute to this ubiquitous organism that is too often taken for granted.

（加）鈴木大衛（David Suzuki），加拿大日裔遺傳學傢，法學、哲學博士，環保主義者，自然科學節目《萬物之道》的主持人。曾獲聯閤國教科文組織頒發的卡林加奬、波士頓科學博物館頒發的布拉德福德·沃什伯恩奬等多個奬項。現居加拿大溫哥華市。 （加）韋恩·格雷迪（Wayne Grady），加拿大作傢、編輯。著有十四本非虛構圖書，也寫過短篇小說、旅遊和自然隨筆集。現居加拿大安大略省金斯頓市，在不列顛哥倫比亞大學教授創意寫作。 譯者：林茂昌，美國西北大學管理科學碩士，曾就職於花旗銀行、美國保富管理顧問公司、中國信托商業銀行等，現從事投資與創作。譯有《沃爾瑪效應》《我們的新世界》《黑天鵝效應》《師父》等作品。 黎湛平，動物醫學相關專業畢業，兼職翻譯十餘年，譯著類型多元化，涵蓋小說、科普、藝術等。譯有《錶觀遺傳大革命》《聽見海底的形狀》等作品。