Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape

by Gayle Brandow Samuels

Book Overview

Trees are the grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their complex root systems, trees represent shelter, stability, place, and community as few other living objects can.

Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world's trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813535395
• ISBN13: 9780813535395
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"