04042cam a2200853 4500 1466055316 TxAuBib 20240725120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781646220014 1646220013 B082TTJQR7 Amazon 69bc46c5-de15-471a-a93d-d373bc0ad042 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5190842 OverDrive (Product ID) 673500 673500 673500 TxAuBib Lee, Jessica J. Two Trees Make a Forest [Libby] : In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts. Catapult, 2020. Education. international relations. family. Asia. Biography. Chinese Culture. cookbooks. sport. Silk Road. asian american studies. parenting. autobiographies. asian american. chinese history. Autobiography. running. Asian. China. basketball. silk. Travel. sports. biographies. History. Sociology. Economics. Bucket list. Silk Roads. travel books. travel book. china travel guide. history books. silkroad. china history. biographies of famous people. sociology books. travel gifts. traveling books. asian history books. silk road book. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4066kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Sociology. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (<i>Refinery29</i>).</b><br /> A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.<br /> Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.<br /> <i>Two Trees Make a Forest</i> is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-07-24 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=69bc46c5-de15-471a-a93d-d373bc0ad042&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=69bc46c5-de15-471a-a93d-d373bc0ad042&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=69bc46c5-de15-471a-a93d-d373bc0ad042&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)