Amy Stewart

The St. Louis County Library Foundation and Left Bank Books Present Acclaimed Nature Writer Amy Stewart 

 
Author of “The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession” 
Presented in partnership with the Missouri Botanical Garden 

Bestselling author of “The Drunken Botanist,” nature writer Amy Stewart presents fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees. When Stewart discovered a community of tree collectors, she expected to meet horticultural fanatics driven to plant every species of oak or maple. But she also discovered that the urge to collect trees springs from something deeper: a longing for community, a vision for the future, or a path to healing and reconciliation. Illustrated with Stewart’s own hand-drawn watercolor portraits of these extraordinary people and their trees, “The Tree Collectors” is a stunning tribute to a devoted group of nature lovers making their lives—and the world—more beautiful, one tree at a time.

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