Once upon a time, a colony ship crash lands ........

[nomis5]

....on a heavily forested and somewhat hostile world. The survivors adapt to life high in the treetops, evolve over many many years and eventually another ship arrives and/or crashes.....

Hopefully a fairly accurate summary based on my hazy recollections of a novel read in the mid 80's courtesy of Pudsey Civic Library.

Bearing in mind this was around the same time as I discovered the bountiful pleasures that Theakstons Brewery produces, my recollections might be a tad addled....

If anyone can assist with Author and or Title it would be appreciated.

 

[Happy Joe]

Midworld - Alan Dean Foster?

Midworld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Enjoy!

 

[nomis5]

Thats the one Happy Joe....many thanks. Off to scour the local 2nd hand bookshops for a copy.

 

[Ian Whates]

One of ADF's best, I always thought. He also returned to Midworld years later for a second novel -- Mid-Flinx.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

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Is that the one where the new arrivals find that the burrs on the trees give eternal youth (or something of the kind) and plan to extract them, When in fact they burrs are where the ancestors have been returned to the trees after death.