Gods, wasps, and stranglers the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story.
| Main Author: | Shanahan, Mike (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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White River Junction, Vermont :
Chelsea Green Publishing,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Snakes and ladders & tantalising figs
- Trees of life, trees of knowledge
- A long seduction
- banyans and the birth of botany
- Botanical monkeys
- Sex & violence in the hanging gardens
- Struggles for existence
- Goodbye to the gardeners, hello to the heat
- From dependence to domination
- The war of the trees
- The testimony of volcanoes
- Once destroyed, forever lost?
- A wedding invitation.