Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

$15.13
ISBN:
9781035009060
Author:
Jared Farmer
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Publication Date:
2024
Format:
Paperback

The new science of tree time prompted travellers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sa…

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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

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The new science of tree time prompted travellers 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. 'A magisterial study of arboreal longevity . .

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