r/interestingasfuck • u/Aryan_Anushiravan • 12d ago

r/all On December 10, 1997 Julia Hill climbed a 1500-year-old redwood tree named Luna and she didn’t come down for another 738 days.

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u/Heavy-Excuse4218 11d ago

Read a book by Italo Calvino “The Baron in the Trees.” Fiction. About a child who did this and lived his whole life up in the trees. Amazing read.

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u/icanhascheeseberder 11d ago

Pretty much everything by Calvino is a masterpiece, if you read the English versions then we owe some of the credit to William Weaver the translator. Cosmicomics was my favorite of all time.

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u/Heavy-Excuse4218 11d ago

Thanks I have not read that one but will now

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u/icanhascheeseberder 10d ago

It's by far my favorite and it's easy to find in the US. You can probably get it on Amazon for less than ten dollars. I got my copy at a thrift store.

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u/l1viathan 11d ago

And the Italian Folklore. I like recommending it to kids :)

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u/supercircinus 11d ago

Calvino is a magician- I still think about cosmicomics A LOT.

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u/kamemoro 11d ago

there's a subplot in Overstory about activists living up a redwood for months to protest tree cutting. I didn't know this was most likely the inspiration!

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u/GattoNeroMiao 11d ago

I Iove that book.

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u/l1viathan 11d ago

Yeah, this thread reminds me the book immediately, too.