Tree A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter

Name: Tree A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
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ISBN: 9780307395399

ISBN-10: 0307395391

ISBN-13: 9780307395399

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Authors: Colin Tudge

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There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in "The Tree," Colin Tudge travels around the world--throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe--bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us: how they grow old, how they eat and reproduce, how they talk to one another (and they do), and why they came to…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Colin Tudge is one of Britain's leading science writers. A research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy at the London School of Economics, he is the author of, most recently, "The Second Creation" (FSG, 2000) with Ian Wilmut & Keith Campbell.