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I have learned many words for 'island': isle atoll eyot islet or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone and always by definition I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a civilisation grown inland from the sea the vastness of mountains was a better analogue: (dao 'island') built from the relationship between earth and sky. Between tectonic plates and conflicting cultures Taiwan is an island of extremes: high mountains exposed flatlands thick forests. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life written on the cusp of his total memory loss Jessica J Lee hunts his story in parallel with exploring Taiwan hoping to understand the quakes that brought her family from China to Taiwan and Canada and the ways in which our human stories are interlaced with geographical forces. Part-nature writing part-biography Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.

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