Summary
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 tr... Full description
- Machine generated contents note:
- I.
- Venerable Species
- II.
- Memento Mori
- III.
- Monuments of Nature
- IV.
- Pacific Fires
- V.
- Circles and Lines
- VI.
- Oldest Known
- VII.
- Latest Oldest
- VIII.
- Time to Mourn.