American canopy : trees, forests, and the making of a nation
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2012.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Status
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Forests and forestry -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Forests and forestry -- United States -- History.
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
National characteristics, American -- History.
Timber -- United States -- History.
Trees -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Trees -- United States -- History.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
Forests and forestry -- United States -- History.
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
National characteristics, American -- History.
Timber -- United States -- History.
Trees -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Trees -- United States -- History.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2012.
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 406 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-389) and index.
Description
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.
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The history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself--from the majestic white pines of New England, coveted by the British Crown for use as masts in navy warships, to the orange groves of California, which lured settlers west. In fact, without the country's vast forests and the hundreds of tree species they contained, there would have been no ships, docks, railroads, stockyards, wagons, barrels, furniture, newspapers, rifles, or firewood. No New York City, Miami, or Chicago. No Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, or Daniel Boone. America--if indeed it existed--would be a very different place without its millions of acres of trees. As Eric Rutkow's epic account shows, trees indivisible from the country's rise as both an empire and a civilization. Never before has anyone treated our country's trees and forests as the subject of a broad historical study, and the result is an accessible, informative, and thoroughly entertaining read.--From publisher description.