Historic Trees Of America
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Author | : Jeffrey G. Meyer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780618068913 |
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Explains the historical stories behind such famous American trees as Johnny Appleseed's apple tree, Amelia Earhart's sugar maple, George Washington's tulip poplar, and the Gettysburg Address honey locust.
Author | : Donald Culross Peattie |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1595341676 |
Download A Natural History of North American Trees Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country’s history. Pioneers often stabled an animal in the hollow heart of an old sycamore, and the whole family might live there until they could build a log cabin. The tuliptree, the tallest native hardwood, is easier to work than most softwood trees; Daniel Boone carved a sixty-foot canoe from one tree to carry his family from Kentucky into Spanish territory. In the days before the Revolution, the British and the colonists waged an undeclared war over New England's white pines, which made the best tall masts for fighting ships. It's fascinating to learn about the commercial uses of various woods -- for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house framing, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. But we cannot read this book without the occasional lump in our throats. The American elm was still alive when Peattie wrote, but as we read his account today we can see what caused its demise. Audubon's portrait of a pair of loving passenger pigeons in an American beech is considered by many to be his greatest painting. It certainly touched the poet in Donald Culross Peattie as he depicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon when the beech forest was destroyed. A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.
Author | : Katharine Stanley Nicholson |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Trees |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1930 |
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Author | : Eric Rutkow |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439193584 |
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In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.
Author | : Gretchen Riley |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1623492386 |
Download Famous Trees of Texas Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Famous Trees of Texas was first published in 1970 by the Texas Forest Service (now Texas A&M Forest Service), an organization created in 1915 and charged with protecting and sustaining the forests, trees, and other related natural resources of Texas. For the 100-year anniversary of TFS, the agency presents a new edition of this classic book, telling the stories of 101 trees throughout the state. Some are old friends, featured in the first edition and still alive (27 of the original 81 trees described in the first edition have died); some are newly designated, discovered as people began to recognize their age and value. All of them remain “living links” to the state’s storied past.
Author | : Donald Culross Peattie |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780395581742 |
Download A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A detailed handbook giving clear descriptions and full historical information about the trees that grow in North America--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Historic trees |
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Author | : Willard Winfield Rowlee |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Download 6] Historic trees of North America. 1899 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : James Raymond Simmons |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Botany |
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