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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 432 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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