{"product_id":"elderflora-a-modern-history-of-ancient-trees","title":"Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees","description":"The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world\n\n“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal\n\nHumans 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 travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution.\n\nTaking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.\n\nWinner of the 2023 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0465097847\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0465097847.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Farmer, Jared\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41859084812346,"sku":"DBV.0465097847.G","price":10.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0465097847-0.jpg?v=1793158840","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/elderflora-a-modern-history-of-ancient-trees","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}