| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xix, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published, in slightly different form, in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, in 2005"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-414) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations and figures -- Preface and author's note -- [pt]. 1. What is a tree? -- 1. Trees in mind : simple questions with complicated answers -- 2. Keeping track -- 3. How trees became -- 4. Wood -- [pt]. 2. All the trees in the world -- 5. Trees without flowers : the conifers -- 6. Trees with flowers : magnolias and other primitives -- 7. From palms and screw pines to yuccas and bamboos : the monocot trees -- 8. Thoroughly modern broadleaves -- 9. From oaks to mangoes : the glorious invention of rose-like eudicots -- 10. From handkerchief trees to teak : the daisy-like eudicots -- [pt]. 3. The life of trees -- 11. How trees live -- 12. Which trees live where, and why -- 13. The social life of trees : war or peace? -- [pt]. 4. Trees and us -- 14. The future with trees -- Notes and further reading -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
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Illustrations: The Buddha receiving enlightenment under a peepul tree -- Judas tree -- Jungle scene -- Dicksonia -- All land plants graph -- Cycad -- Ginkgo -- Young yew -- Bristlecone pine -- Juniper -- Magnolias and other primitives -- Tulip tree -- The flowering plant orders -- Dragon tree -- The monocots -- Young royal palm -- Double coconut palm -- Bamboos -- Traveler's palm -- Large cacti -- The eudicots -- Baobab -- The rosids -- Banyan -- Beech -- Birch -- Handkerchief tree -- The asterids -- Cannonball tree -- Teak -- Holly -- Mangroves -- Coastal redwoods rerooting themselves -- Continental drift -- Fig -- Bat pollination -- The syconium (fruit) of a fig -- Agroforestry. |
| Subject |
Trees.
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| ISBN |
1400050367 |
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9781400050369 |
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