American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

by Eric Rutkow

Book Overview

This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation's history. Eric Rutkow's "deeply... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439193541
• ISBN13: 9781439193549
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

American Canopy historically documents the crucial importance of American trees in the building of a

Recommended read for anyone truly interested in the active role trees have filled in America and the worldwide importance of same. Extensively footnoted and brilliantly tied together. Of special interest to lovers of Nature, Dendrology or Dendrochronology.