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Trees of Life (Hardcover)
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Trees of Life (Hardcover)
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A captivatingly informative and visually beautiful survey of the
tree species - from all over the world - that human cultures have
found most useful. Each tree species is the subject of a concise
text centred on a story - or stories - about the tree in question,
and is depicted by means of a photograph, painting or other
aesthetic artefact. The species will be organized thematically
according to the virtues they impart, be that in the form of
timber, nuts, fruit or medicine. The bloodwood tree, a native of
central America, is a tree that made a nation. Its wood produces a
brilliant and lucrative bright red dye and was imported to Europe
for use in dyeing fabrics. The 17th and 18th-century logging camps
established by the British later became the modern nation of
Belize, and the bloodwood tree appears on its national flag. From
the bloodwood to the breadfruit and from the cinchona to the peach,
these are trees that offer not merely shelter, timber and fuel but
also medicines, dyes, foods and fibres. They are very special
trees, and Max Adams, author of The Wisdom of Trees, has a plethora
of such fascinating stories to tell about them.
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