ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Object Lessons' is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 'Tree' explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Reviews What astonishingly good writing! What a joy of a book. What a mind, this Matthew Battles. As he writes about trees, Battles could as well be describing his own wild mind: 'uncanny, possessed of depths and mystery, and feral in ways beyond my ken, . . . overspilling with dark abundance, . . . richly disruptive to one's daily commute.'Kathleen Dean...Read More