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Enduring Roots - Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape (Paperback, New edition)
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Enduring Roots - Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape (Paperback, New edition)
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Winner of the National Arbor Day Foundation's Media Award "Enduring
Roots is beautifully written; always engaging, often lyrical. The
research underlying the stories is impressive. . . . Samuels
presents her stories in their historical roundness rather than
spinning yarns from a few selected bits of evidence, as landscape
history sometimes does. This is a competent and compelling work
that encourages us to make moral choices about which stories we
take to heart."-The Journal of American History Trees are the
grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their
shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their
complex root systems, trees represent shelter, stability, place,
and community as few other living objects can. Enduring Roots tells
the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the
apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world's trees, the
bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the
land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and
demonstrate that the landscape is a gift, to be both received and,
sometimes, tragically, to be destroyed. Each chapter of this book
focuses on a specific tree or group of trees and its relationship
to both natural and human history, while exploring themes of
community, memory, time, and place. Readers learn that colonial
farmers planted marker trees near their homes to commemorate
auspicious events like the birth of a child, a marriage, or the
building of a house. They discover that Benjamin Franklin's Newtown
Pippin apples were made into a pie aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour
while the ship was sailing between Tahiti and New Zealand. They are
told the little-known story of how the Japanese flowering cherry
became the official tree of our nation's capital-a tale spanning
many decades and involving an international cast of characters.
Taken together, these and many other stories provide us with a new
ways to interpret the American landscape. Gayle Brandow Samuels is
an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she
teaches in the Masters of Environmental Studies Program. She is the
principal author of Women in the City of Brotherly Love . . . And
Beyond.
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