Elderflora a modern history of ancient trees
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 tr...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Venerable Species
- II. Memento Mori
- III. Monuments of Nature
- IV. Pacific Fires
- V. Circles and Lines
- VI. Oldest Known
- VII. Latest Oldest
- VIII. Time to Mourn.
