Jared Farmer

Gebundenes Buch

Elderflora

A Modern History of Ancient Trees

Beschreibung

Historian Jared Farmer tells the globe-spanning story of humanityâ s deep fascination with the oldest living trees, the lessons in survival they offer us, and how to alter our behaviour so that the young trees of today can become ancient themselves.

Autor

Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Andrew Carnegie Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Elderflora and On Zion's Mount, which won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Philadelphia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781035009046
• ISBN-10: 1035009048
• Artikelnr.: 64358980

Rezensionen

Jared Farmer brings both classic and state-of-the-art botany alive . . . he shows singular insight into how we do what we do-and perhaps more importantly-why we spend our lives studying trees. Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl