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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
By Jared Farmer
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The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration 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 travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sac...
“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration 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 travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sac...