Twelve Trees
The Deep Roots of Our Future
Published on 12. March 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-9821-6405-8 (ISBN)
Description
"The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history--from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. In Twelve Trees, Daniel Lewis ... travels the world to learn about these trees in their habitats. ... Species include the Lost Tree of Easter Island (Sophora toromiro), the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), hymenaea protera (a fossil tree), the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), East Indian sandalwood (Santanum album), the bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), West African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora), the Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), olive tree (Olea europaea), baobab (Adansonia digitata), the kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra), the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-6405-8 (9781982164058)
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Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Southern California, and a writer, college professor, and environmental historian. He writes about the biological sciences and their intersections with extinction, policy, culture, history, politics, law, and literature. Lewis holds the PhD in history and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the Smithsonian, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and elsewhere. Lewis also serves on the faculty at Caltech, where he teaches environmental humanities courses, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is also currently serving a five-year term on the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission, as a Bird Red List Authority member. His previous books include Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i and The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds.