The Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world

Author Biography

Harriet Rix is a tree science consultant and writer. She was formerly based at the Tree Council where she supported Defra in researching tree diseases and urban tree strategies and was secretary for Hedgelink. Before joining the tree sector, she worked in landmine clearance in the Middle East. She is trustee of the Iraqi environmental charity Hasar. Rix holds a biochemistry degree from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. She was a London Library Emerging Writer, and her writing and photography has been published in the Financial Times, London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement and more. The Genius of Trees is her first book.