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I am the author of 'Ladders To Heaven: How fig trees shaped our history, fed our imaginations and can enrich our future' (Unbound, 2016). My book was published in the US and Canada as 'Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees' (Chelsea Green, 2016).
Read a summary and advance praise from: Annie Proulx, Deborah Blum, Michael Pollan, Sy Montgomery, Simran Sethi, David George Haskell and others.

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‘Evidence failure’ blights fight against illegal wildlife trade
The nearly magical properties of fig trees
Guns, gangs and gold: A brewing social and environmental crisis in Venezuela
Brilliant birds and the mystery of the mutating mangroves

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