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Elderflora : a modern history of ancient trees / Jared Farmer.

Summary:
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 to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world's oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old. -- Provided by publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465097845
  • ISBN: 0465097847
  • Physical Description: vii, 432 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Trees > History.
Trees > Age.
Historic trees.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 582.1609 FARMER (Text) 50686016251808 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 582.16 F233e (Text) 85131001869693 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) 582.1609 FARMER (Text)
Endowment: Donald Markle Named Endowment, 2022
35740635895261 Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 582.16 FAR Science Technology (Text) 33454005887328 2nd Floor Available -
Mason-Dixon Public Library Adults 582.16 FAR Nonfiction (Text) 34262000786331 Main Room Available -
Allentown Public Library 582.16 FARM (Text) 34455006964312 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -
Hughes Library 582.16 FAR (Text) 32378005164407 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Western Pocono Community Library 582.1609 Far (Text) 31119000614041 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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