Jared Farmer

Elderflora (eBook, ePUB)

A Modern History of Ancient Trees

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History

'A masterful blend of natural and human history . . . Farmer's Elderflora aren't just amazing old organisms, but a backdrop against which human drama, hubris and decency play out.' - New Scientist

'Fascinating' - The Observer

Combining rigorous research with lyrical writing, Elderflora chronicles the complex roles ancient trees have played in the modern world and illuminates how we might need old trees now more than ever.

Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our respect 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 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 . . . like the outstretched limbs of a luxuriant elm, Farmer's narrative extends over a broad range of social and scientific issues.' - Natural History

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781035009077
• Artikelnr.: 64548952

Autorenporträt

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.

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