Elderflora
A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$31.44
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2023
Summary
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 travellers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation acco…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035009053 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035009056 |
| Author: | Jared Farmer |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 552g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 154mm x 233mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Jared Farmer brings both classic and state-of-the-art botany alive … he shows singular insight into how we do what we do—and perhaps more importantly—why we spend our lives studying trees. – Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl
While it is true that the trees have no tongues, that doesn’t mean they don’t speak to us … Read Jared Farmer’s lucid and fascinating book to discover the … mysteries told by elderflora. – Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War
Jared Farmer
Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Andrew Carnegie Fellow, he is the author of several books, including On Zion’s Mount, which won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Philadelphia.
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