Random Home presents the audiobook edition of THE PERSON Who Climbs Trees, written and read by Adam Aldred.

This is actually the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, that has made a profession out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the BBC and climbing trees.

James’s climbs take him around the world, scaling the most incredible and majestic trees and shrubs around: the strangler fig tree of Borneo, the monolithic Congolese moabi tree, the fern-covered howler tree of about The Man Who Climbs Trees Costa Rica and the colossal hill ash of Australia. On the way he meets indigenous tribes and jungle felines, he gets stung by African bees and chased by gorillas, and he spends his nights in a hammock pitched a huge selection of ft up in the air, with just the stars above him.

This book blends incredible stories of his adventures in the branches and a desire for the majesty of trees to show us the joy of rising – literally – above the daily grind, up in to the canopy from the forest.

‘The wide horizontal branches stretched from me to relax like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the center of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of fallow deer I had been following emerged through the trees, carefully choosing their method through the churned-up leaf litter to pass beneath me in the wake of the ponies. That they had been there all along and I had been instantly struck that not just one of them appeared to have seen or smelt me as I crouched in the hands from the oak straight above.’