Books : Ancient Trees: Trees That Live For 1,000 Years
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 634
EAN: 9781855859746
ISBN: 1855859742
Label: Collins & Brown
Manufacturer: Collins & Brown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 28, 2002
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Studio: Collins & Brown
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“Parker’s many beautiful, full-color images contribute a great deal, but what makes this book especially inter-esting is a discussion of the roles these trees have played through the ages in human religions, myths, economies, and everyday life.”—Library Journal. “More than an adornment for the coffee table.”—Washington Post. “One of my favorites....All the trees are awe-inspiring.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
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This absorbing book explores some of the oldest living organisms on the planet. Over eighteen types of trees are investigated, from the skyscraping Redwood of North America to the groundhugging Welwitschia of Namibia. Here is the complete list: Redwood, Brittlecone Pine, Montezuma Cypress, Monkey Puzzle, Amazonian Ancients (including Brazil Nut, Cumaru and Castanha de Macaco), Yew, Oak, Sweet Chestnut, Lime, Olive, Welwitschia, Baobab, Kauri, Totara, Antarctic Beech, Fig, Cedar and Ginkgo. At the ... Read More
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I liked this. I bought this for the pictures of Welwitschia cones, something I did not encounter a good picture of before. Admittedly these are an exception in the degree of detail they show: all the other pictures are 'atmosphere' pictures only. This is really a coffee-table book only, not a tree book.
For a coffee table book it has relatively few errors. Sure, on page 63 the lay-out editor inserted the "(right)" at the wrong place in the caption (should have been after "nuts" instead ... Read More
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I was hoping for two things in this book. I was hoping to get an insight into what it is that makes it possible for organisms to live so long. All we have here are anecdotes about specific species, no discussion in general about extraordinary longevity in the plant kingdom. Second, I was hoping to get a sense of scale and magnificence looking at the photographs. Personally, I found the photography mediocre. I don't care how grissled and torn up an ancient tree is, a good photographer will find a way ... Read More
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"If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all." --Ronald Reagan
In "answer" to this stupidity by our ex-president, the authors of this attractive coffee table style book quote John Muir on page 7:
"Among all the varied productions with which Nature has adorned the surface of the earth, none awakens our sympathies, or interests our imagination so powerfully as those venerable trees which seem to have stood the lapse of ages, silent witnesses of the successive generations ... Read More
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A book that justifies itself by focusing on the "ancientness" of its subjects must do two things if it is to be taken seriously as a contribution to knowledge. First, it must discuss the issue of longevity in trees in some depth, and tie that in with what is known or suspected about longevity in other organisms. If indeed this is a catalog of the ancient, then what can we make of it? What general truths emerge from the data? The author makes no serious attempt to synthesize the information she brings to ... Read More
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