Elderflora

ISBN: 9781035009053 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2022 Autor: Jared Farmer Editură: Basic Books Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 448 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world


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 to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution.

Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Jared Farmer
Data Publicarii
2022
Editura
Basic Books
Latime
15.3
Inaltime
23.4
Greutate
300
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
448
Subtitlu
A Modern History of Ancient Trees
Istoric preț pentru: Elderflora

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