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Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
287 pages: illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and places for people to gather. In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves evocative illustrations with masterful prose to show that the story of orchards is a story of how we have shaped nature to our desires for millennia.
As Brunner tells it, the first orchards may have been oases dotted...
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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