Enduring Roots : Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape /

Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world's trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and demonstrate that the land...

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Tác giả chính: Samuels, Gayle
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj51p
Mục lục:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER ONE - TAKING ROOT: THE CHARTER OAK
  • CHAPTER TWO - FAMILY TREES
  • CHAPTER THREE - APPLES: CORE ISSUES
  • CHAPTER FOUR - THREE CHERRIES
  • CHAPTER FIVE - RETURNING NATIVES
  • CHAPTER SIX - THE TREE THAT OWNED ITSELF
  • CHAPTER SEVEN - METHUSELAH'S WALK
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • About the author