La ragazza sull’albero

Year: 2000 Pages: 216 “As I write, at the age of twenty-five, I have been living for more than two years on an ancient redwood tree sixty meters high. I have survived storms, threats, loneliness and doubts. I experienced the magnificence and devastation of one of the oldest forests on Earth. I live in a tree called Luna. I'm trying to save his life. Believe me, it wasn't what I intended to do with my life." When in December 1997, at the age of 23, Julia Butterfly Hill climbed to the top of a sixty-meter-high sequoia, named Luna, to protest against the felling of a forest of thousand-year-old trees in Northern California by Pacific Lumber, a company in the wood harvesting and processing sector, planned to stay there for a few weeks. It came back only two years later having reached an agreement of great symbolic value with Pacific Lumber for the conservation of Luna and the surrounding trees. Throughout this period she lived on a small and rickety platform about sixty meters above sea level at the mercy of very violent storms, persecuted by helicopters from the logging company and besieged by her security agents who prevented the passage of supplies, tormented by doubt , from hunger, from the cold, from the loneliness and from the pain of witnessing the destruction of an ancient forest. This book is the story of his adventure narrated in the first person, a touching and intense tale of love, passion, determination and the courage of one's convictions.