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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fourteen trees in this book have earned the title "Celebritrees" for their global fame and significance. Both in fact and in legend, these fascinating trees remind us not only how much pleasure trees bring, but what they can tell us about history.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 432 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed...
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