Trees of Life / / Max Adams.
An informative, richly illustrated book about eighty of the world’s most important and remarkable treesOur planet is home to some three trillion trees—roughly four hundred for every person on Earth. In Trees of Life, Max Adams selects, from sixty thousand extant species, eighty remarkable trees with...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 200+ color photos and illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Cork, Rubber, Mulberry: a cornucopia
- Chapter 2 Dragon’s Blood and Jesuit’s Bark: trees for dyes, perfumes and medicine
- Chapter 3 From Apple to Walnut: the fruit and nut bearers
- Chapter 4 Sugar and Spice: a cook’s bounty
- Chapter 5 Supertrees
- Chapter 6 Trees for the planet
- Glossary
- Endnotes
- Further reading
- Index